Zipingpu Hydropower plant stopped by quake
According to the Sichuan provincial government on Tuesday morning, the Wenchuan earthquake has caused severe cracks in the dam of the Zipingpu Hydropower Station. The plant and associated buildings have collapsed, and some are partly sunk. The whole installation is out of commission.
Located at the junction of Dujiangyan City and Wenchuan County on the upper Minjiang River, the Zipingpu Hydropower Plant was one of the first 10 landmark projects of the Western Development plan. It is also the principal project in the province’s 10th five-year plan. The station was brought into service in 2006.
At 2:28 p.m. on Monday an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale pounded Wenchuan County in the Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba, Sichuan Province, leveling some 500,000 homes in the affected areas and leaving at least 9,219 people dead in the eight affected provinces, the Ministry of Civil Affairs confirmed.
(China.org.cn May 13, 2008)
http://www.china.org.cn/china/wenchuan_earthquake/2008-05/13/content_15201601.htm
THANKS I WAS TRYING TO FIND A PICTURE OF IT AFTER I FOUND THIS STORY EARLIER
Well that answers my question, apparently it did not fare well. Hopefully they contained the problem, but that dam is massive (50 stories tall).