>It is getting older and Chinese concrete and angle iron doesn’t have a great worldwide reputation
People are saying that there’s a huge silt buildup on the lake side of the dam that’s hurting the dam’s structural integrity when the lake fills too much.
Have seen several videos of the china flood in the Taipei news.
I watched the construction of the 3G dam as much as I could. They didn’t seem to be building in a way to flush silt. And the watershed that fills that thing is huge but yet they did little to nothing to clean the slopes that were going to be flooded. So, yeah, if silt clogs the locks and gets up to the hydro intake areas it will be in werry, werry seriwish twubble.
There is that problem too. They have to dredge periodically to remove it.