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China says troops rush to plug dangerous cracks in dam (50 story Zipingpu Dam above Chengdu Plain)
Associated Press via Yahoo ^
| 5/14/08
| AUDRA ANG
Posted on 05/14/2008 10:08:52 AM PDT by Nexus
HANWANG, China - Thousands of Chinese soldiers rushed on Wednesday to repair a dam badly cracked by the country's massive earthquake, while rescuers arrived for the first time in the epicenter of the disaster.
China's top economic planning body said that the quake had damaged 391 mostly small dams. It left "extremely dangerous" cracks in the Zipingpu Dam upriver from the earthquake-hit city of Dujiangyan and some 2,000 soldiers were sent to repair the damage, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Xinhua said Dujiangyan would be "swamped" if major problems emerged at the dam.
He Biao, the director of the Aba Disaster Relief headquarters in northern Sichuan province, said there were also concerns over dams closer to the epicenter.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: chengdu; china; chinaquake; earthquake; sichuan
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To: UCANSEE2
If one large dam goes.... See post #29. It's happened in China before. August 1975, 62 dams downriver, 85K+ dead.
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posted on
05/15/2008 9:12:58 AM PDT
by
Domandred
(McCain's 'R' is a typo that has never been corrected)
To: Domandred
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posted on
05/15/2008 9:21:39 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(I reserve the right to misinterpret the comments of any and all pesters)
To: Domandred
The hydrologist Chen Xing, who had criticized the dam-building program, was rehabilitated and taken with the high Party officials on an aerial tour of the devastated area. Chen was sent to Beijing to urge the use of explosives to clear channels for the flood waters to drain.
interesting, wonder what rehabilitated means............
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05/15/2008 9:35:43 AM PDT
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PeterPrinciple
( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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