China Blasts a Dam to Relieve Pressure from Raging Flood Waters

Gateway Pundit ^ | 07/20/2020 | Joe Hoft

[Army Air Corps]

Egad.

[frank ballenger]

Chinese official: How it goings, comrade?

2nd guy: Just one dam thing after another.

[KC_Lion]

Thanks for the Ping, I was just getting ready to ping you.

Everything is fine.

[SeekAndFind]

DAM ON THE CHUHE RIVER

REPORTED BY TAIWAN NEWS

Chinese authorities on Sunday (July 19) blasted a dam on a river in eastern Anhui Province to discharge floodwaters, while the vaunted Three Gorges Dam was hammered with the biggest flood of the year so far.

Communist China's state-run mouthpiece CCTV announced that a dam on the Chuhe River was blown up in order to "alleviate the pressure of flood control" at 2:49 a.m. on Sunday. As waters climbed to historic highs, two successive explosions punctured two holes in the dam in Chuzhou, Quanjiao County, allowing the muddy Chuhe River to pour into flood storage ponds below.

Prior to the blast, the water level at Zhongmiao Station in Chaohu reached 12.83 meters in the morning, surpassing the historic high of 12.80 meters recorded in 1991. A total of 35 rivers and lakes in Anhui alone had reported high water marks exceeding danger levels by noon Saturday (July 18), including the Yangtze and Huaihe rivers, reported China's government-operated Xinhua.

The breaching of the dams is expected to lower the water level of the Chuhe River by 70cm, according to the state-run voicebox Global Times. Deliberately exploding dams and embankments was a tactic used during the massive floods seen in 1998, and it appears that the government is resorting to this practice again as the floodwaters across China this year are already matching or exceeding the levels seen 22 years ago.

Meanwhile, the second major flood of the year was declared on the Yangtze River on Friday (July 17), with the inflow into the Three Gorges Dam reaching 61,000 cubic meters per second by 8 a.m. Saturday. On Sunday evening at 8 p.m., the inflow into the dam dropped by 15,000 cubic meters per second to 46,000.

[ClearCase_guy]

I don’t get it. If they are blasting a dam upstream, it releases more water and increases pressure on Three Gorges Dam. If they are blasting a dam downstream, it was no effect on Three Gorges Dam.

I don’t see the point.

[Vermont Lt]

I know, don’t we use overflow valves or runways?

I am not engineer...but isn’t blowing it up a little “extreme?” Unless its a beaver dam. Then its cool.

[ExSES]

DOWNSTREAM LIVES MATTER!

Not so much I guess?

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Seems kind of Old news. What do you expect from those gomers.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Chinese official: How it goings, comrade?

2nd guy: Just one dam thing after another.

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Very funny. Now let’s see how they say it in Mandarin ... :)

[babble-on]

It looks like they blew up a levee rather than a dam, and so flooded some empty land to take pressure off the river system overall.

[Mr. K]

The concrete on the 3 gorges dam is probably not even hardened yet

I read somewhere that the Hoover Dam is not even fully cured inside

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Big Dam Hole

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Maybe they figure this small hole will last VS. the whole DAM thing collapsing.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: I am not engineer...but isn’t blowing it up a little “extreme?” Unless its a beaver dam. Then its cool.

Well, that’s what the news said ( in fact, they ADMIT it’s extreme ( and it’s been done before )). From the article:

“Blasting dams and embankments to discharge water was an extreme response employed during China’s worst floods...”

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“Millions were displaced as an area of about 600 kilometers was submerged to create the world’s largest dam and hydroelectricity facilities.”

What does that mean? Square or radius, who knows.

[PGR88]

Its economic stimulus!

Now they can print money and mobilize tens of thousands of workers to rebuild the dam and everything downstream.

[Dave Wright]

The downstream cities from the Three Gorges Dam are the world’s largest producers of generic pharmaceuticals and other essential export industries. Not only would a failure devastate the Chinese economy it could produce a worldwide shortage of antibiotics and other critical medications.

Aside from the impact the floods are having on China’s economy it is also accelerating some major internal CCP power struggles. The CCP has two major factions, the black hand led by Zhang Jimin, and the white hand led by Xi Jinping. Jimin is a billionaire head of the China Cement Association who supplied much of the Three Gorges Dam materials and controls major hardliner factions within the party. He may be trying to leverage this to oust Xi Jinping who some Asian reports have indicated is becoming mentally unstable.

[rbmillerjr]

The Chinese don’t seem to be able to engineer anything, except for slave labor.

They need to steal everything, literally. But they will take over the world.

[sauropod]

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