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FRIGHTENING: China Admits Three Gorges Dam Moved, Ignores Numerous Prior Reports and Says It Just Happened Last Weekend
Gateway Pundit ^
| 07/22/2020
| Joe Hoft
Posted on 07/22/2020 5:45:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
China finally admits Its Three Gorges Dam has ‘deformed slightly’ but claims it happened over the weekend, ignoring reports this happened long ago.
The Asian Times reported yesterday:
In a rare revelation, Beijing has admitted that its 2.4-kilometer Three Gorges Dam spanning the Yangtze River in Hubei province deformed slightly after record flooding.
The official Xinhua News Agency quoted the operator of the the worlds largest hydroelectric gravity dam as saying that some nonstructural, peripheral parts of the dam had buckled.
The dam was a pet project of the late Premier Li Peng and a monumental pride of the nation when it blocked and diverted Asias largest river in 1997.
The deformation occurred last Saturday when the flood from western provinces including Sichuan and Chongqing along the upper reaches of the Yangtze River peaked at a record-setting 61,000 cubic meters per second, according to China Three Gorges Corporation, a state-owned enterprise that manages the dam and the sprawling power plant underneath it.
The company noted that parts of the dam had deformed slightly, displacing some external structures, and seepage into the main outlet walls had also been reported throughout the 18 hours on Saturday and Sunday when water was discharged though its outlets.
One week ago the Asian Review reported:
…Zhang Jianping, an activist in Jiangsu, is skeptical.
“With hindsight, I think that all those experts who opposed the buildings of the Three Gorges were right,” Zhang said on Radio Free Asia. “Since it was built, it has never played a role in preventing flooding or droughts, like we thought it would back then.”
Despite protests by residents and environmentalists, the Three Gorges Dam was completed in 2006 after a 12-year build. Millions were displaced as an area of about 600 kilometers was submerged to create the world’s largest dam and hydroelectricity facilities.
However, two weeks ago we reported China’s massive Three Gorges Dam is at risk of blowing, putting 400 million people at risk. The problem is that China once claimed the dam would withstand a 10,000 year flood, then a 1,000 year flood and now only a 100 year flood. Then in 2018 it was reported online that pictures show that the Three Gorges Dam has moved:
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An expert on the region’s food supply, Geoff Quartermaine Bastin, provided this analysis regarding the impact on the world’s food supply should the massive dam break:
The collapse of the TGD would destroy all the cropland and livestock downstream, destroy major cities such as Wuhan and could threaten Shanghai. It would affect the Grand Canal systems and so spill over into the Yellow River Region. I’m not going to quantify the damage, it’s very clear that the collapse would be catastrophic.
But not just to China. The country already is a net food importer. Without soybeans from Brazil and the USA and wheat from Australia and Europe and the US, China cannot feed its livestock let alone its human population. The collapse of the TGD would perhaps be the single largest disaster that could affect the world’s food security because aside from the immediate disaster there would be enormous upward pressure on food prices, putting essential staples out of reach of hundreds of millions of people outside China.
The point here is that anyone concerned about food anywhere should want to think through what they might do if the TGD failed.
The official China position is that the Three Gorges Dam moved this past weekend. It moved, but last weekend is at least two weeks after the dam’s movement first occurred.
TOPICS: Society; Weather
KEYWORDS: breakbabybreak; ccp; china; dam; flooding; foodsupply; foodsupplypanic; photoshoporama; threegorgesdam; yangtze; yangtzeriver
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To: tired&retired
Possibility of Chernobyl X 66 and 380 million people migrating into Russia.
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posted on
07/22/2020 7:48:06 PM PDT
by
353FMG
To: OKSooner
That would let all of it out. Pretty much all at once, as the blasted section would crumble.
82
posted on
07/22/2020 7:48:41 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(Interesting how those so interested in workERS are so disinterested in workING.)
To: BenLurkin
Numbers might be off, IIRC they’re releasing 28mil cuft water eacch day through the food gates AND the locks, but 44mil-50mil cuft of water is being added to the basin behind it each day. Net increase of 16-20mil cuft of water building behind it daily & is essentially building up pressure. They can’t release the flood gates any more than they are doing now. They’re wide open. Rainy season is into August
83
posted on
07/22/2020 7:50:34 PM PDT
by
SheepWhisperer
(My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
To: Vision
From a Vietnamesse friend- What would you think about that? It was made in China.
The Viets have a lot of experience with Chinese construction contractors. A very beautiful new tourist oriented highway built from Cam Ranh to Nha Trang was crumbling before it was finished. It was rebuilt by Koreans and has been there fine for ten years now.
To: SeekAndFind
I read that if it breaks even parts of Iowa will flood.
85
posted on
07/22/2020 7:51:59 PM PDT
by
GulfMan
To: Former Proud Canadian
And all the debris (some radioactive) washed out to sea.
It would be a global nightmare.the life killed in the Pacific would be biblic
86
posted on
07/22/2020 7:55:53 PM PDT
by
SheepWhisperer
(My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
To: SeekAndFind
destroy major cities such as Wuhan
Well that is a plus. No more virus’s.
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posted on
07/22/2020 8:05:41 PM PDT
by
minnesota_bound
(homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
To: SeekAndFind
Are they sure the image was georectified correctly. It is a common error for features like bridges and dams to look distorted or wavy. Extra processing can fix the waviness - it could be an artifact and not real.
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posted on
07/22/2020 8:08:09 PM PDT
by
Wilhelm Tell
(True or False? This is not a tag line.)
To: edwinland
Ive seen images and video on CrossroadS with Joshua Phillips (youtube) where it definitely is warped. Your image is weird I agree but Ive seen video footage that looks real. Theyve opened gates and flooded out 200000 people downstream, many have died. They are panicked about something.
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posted on
07/22/2020 8:12:18 PM PDT
by
boxlunch
(The US Pravda ( MSM), Demcheviks, leftists, Chicomms, Soros. All in this together.)
To: Former Proud Canadian
And they are having famine level drought in the food production parts of they country (wheat and rice crops almost non existent)
90
posted on
07/22/2020 8:14:31 PM PDT
by
boxlunch
(The US Pravda ( MSM), Demcheviks, leftists, Chicomms, Soros. All in this together.)
To: SeekAndFind
Nikkei Asian Review reports:
“Torrential rains that typically hit in July and August started in the middle of June this year.”
This situation may still have weeks to run, if the monsoons last through August, and we are already dealing with such extremes.
Even if the three Gorges Dam holds up, thousands of smaller dams that were built in a rush under Mao in the 1950s and 1960s are experiencing their worst tests ever, and some have already failed.
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posted on
07/22/2020 8:26:15 PM PDT
by
BeauBo
To: BTerclinger; SeekAndFind
I saw an analyst stating that even if the Three Gorges Dam holds and the monsoon ends, Chinese crops have already taken a big hit this year from the flooding.
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posted on
07/22/2020 8:31:10 PM PDT
by
BeauBo
To: BeauBo
Is there a way to short China?
To: arthurus
RE: Xi Jin Ping may be about to discover that the Mandate of Heaven has turned against the Mao Dynasty.
The Communists are Atheists. They don’t believe in Heaven or Hell, much less any mandates from above.
To: edwinland
The power lines are on pylons...straight run between the pylons.
Rest of the dam is a jumble of concrete blocks.
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posted on
07/22/2020 8:46:07 PM PDT
by
spokeshave
(White Confederate statue kills black man......Another month of protests.... (HT to seawolf101))
To: SeekAndFind
“The collapse would be catastrophic.” No kidding.
The bend in the dam is fixable. Relax, Mr. Hoft. The TGD will need constant fixes, because it was made in China.
To: BTerclinger
“Is there a way to short China?”
There is always the currency - but like everything else in communist China, the Government manipulates it.
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posted on
07/22/2020 9:14:31 PM PDT
by
BeauBo
To: SeekAndFind
Its hard to get the real facts on this, I search high and low, but from all put together it does seem as though there may be a tragic event very very soon, like within 48 hours.
The dam can release over twice whats coming in but that would destroy anything downstream. It is over its high safe level, they say its moved like 12mm, its not anchored to bedrock, its wedged, they say the more water weight anchors it better, so they say....
But the silt is building up and scouring the outlets. They are leaking.
There is landslides up stream that blocks a river, it rises and then comes flooding down and hitting the Gorges with more debris.
Meanwhile, the rains keep coming, oh and the military. ..
They evacuated out of the flood zone.
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posted on
07/22/2020 9:18:20 PM PDT
by
Daniel Ramsey
(Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
To: BTerclinger
To: SeekAndFind
If it’s built with the same care and dedication as their modern cities millions of Chinese are royally screwed.
CC
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posted on
07/22/2020 9:56:09 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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