Chinese dam causes quakes and landslides(ground and building cracks are widespread)

The Times(UK) ^ | 05/30/10 | Michael Sheridan and Richard Jones

[TigerLikesRooster]

May 30, 2010

Chinese dam causes quakes and landslides

Michael Sheridan and Richard Jones

Roads are cracked in the Huang Gu Po district of Badong on the lower reaches of the Three Gorges Dam

Some of the damage caused can be seen in Badong

The Three Gorges dam was so vast and sweeping a vision that nothing could stand in its way. Not the old cities of the Yangtze valley, storehouses of human toil and treasure for more than a thousand years. Not the lush, low-lying farmlands, nor the villages, nor even the pagodas and temples that graced the riverbanks.

The cries of dissenting scientists and the lamentations of more than a million Chinese people forced to leave their ancestral lands counted for nothing.

When the waters rose to 570ft last year, drowning all these things, it marked a triumph for the engineers at the top of the Chinese Communist party.

But in the past six months a sinister trail of events has unfolded from the dam all the way up the 410-mile reservoir to the metropolis of Chongqing.

It began with strange, small-scale earthquakes recorded by official monitoring stations and reported by the Chinese media.

Mysterious cracks split roads and sundered schoolhouses and apartments in newly built towns and villages on the bluffs looking down on the river.

[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[DB]

Wow.

That could easily turn into the biggest engineering failure ever.

[kenth]

Maybe the garbage filler inside the dam wasn’t as structurally sound as rebar after all.

[dfwgator]

Just dam.

[JRios1968]

Well, Dam!

[I see my hands]

Dang dam.

[presently no screen name]

Dam it!

[21twelve]

Um - it WILL be the biggest engineering failure ever. It was suspect from the get-go by western engineers that it would fail at some point. After reading this, I think it will be sooner rather than later.

[Lurker]

Considering the quality of ChiCom construction work I predict a rather spectacular failure of this structure in the not too distant future.

[Libloather]

Chinese dam causes quakes

Quakes? Global warming the culprit this time?

[Jeff Chandler]

Some of the damage caused can be seen in Badong

[Jeff Chandler]

“What kind of dogshit government moves itself out and moves us into somewhere like this?” one of them complained.

[American Constitutionalist]

" Maybe the garbage filler inside the dam wasn’t as structurally sound as rebar after all. "

I bet that they used any kind of mix of cheap cement and didn't allow the cement to cure.
I bet there is a lot of green color cement in that dam in China.
The Hoover dam had pipes in the middle of the concrete for refrigeration to allow it to cool down.

[gunsequalfreedom]

When the waters rose to 570ft last year, drowning all these things, it marked a triumph for the engineers at the top of the Chinese Communist party.

Wow did the Times get this wrong. The engineers were Euorpe and New Zealand.

[American Constitutionalist]

" Um - it WILL be the biggest engineering failure ever. It was suspect from the get-go by western engineers that it would fail at some point. After reading this, I think it will be sooner rather than later."

Don't forget about the environmental impact that this dam will have when it finally goes.
Where are the environmental groups protesting China over this environmental disaster ?

[historyrepeatz]

Kung Pao Deepwater Redeux?

[Flag_This]

"Where are the environmental groups protesting China over this environmental disaster ? "

Commies are "friends of the earth" and would never dream of doing anything that could harm Gaia. Just ask them - they'll tell you.

[21twelve]

And not only friends of Mother Earth, but for “The People”.

(Well, except for the millions that they displaced.)

[StormEye]

"Where are the environmental groups protesting China over this environmental disaster ?"

Only those nations based upon Judeo-Christian ethics, free enterprise and individual liberty are evil. Backward communist tyrannies like the "Peoples Republic" of China, Castor's Cuba, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, all get a free pass from the fifth column leftists in the West. Communists can do no wrong in the eyes of the Left in Western nations. It doesn't matter how badly they trash and destroy or how many people they murder in the insane quest to create their Marxist utopias.