Posted on 07/26/2020 10:34:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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 world’s 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 Asia’s 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.
But the problem of water seeping out did not last long, as the dam reportedly deployed floodgates to hold as much water as possible in its 39.3 billion-cubic-meter reservoir to shield the cities downstream from the biggest Yangtze deluge so far this year.
It is believed that the dam’s operator must protect the central megacity of Wuhan, whose 10 million residents are still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic that erupted there in December.
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Translation....RUN!!!!!
The Deformed Dam is about Too Blow
“YES! THIS! Concrete is supposed to warp and bend! It’s a feature, not a bug!”
Yup, flexible concrete. Right up there with transparent aluminun.
Comrade! RBMK Reaktor is impossible melt down! Or is gulag for you! Blyat!
some nonstructural, peripheral parts of the dam had buckled.
If it is nonstructural, why did it buckle?
> If it is nonstructural, why did it buckle? <
And I don’t even know what “nonstructural” means. What part of a dam is not part of the structure? Maybe they are referring to signs on top of the dam.
And I have a dam on a major river, also for sale.
Closer inspection of the sensors revealed a "Made in China" sticker which doesn't inspire confidence.
Concrete doesn’t like to bend and cracks often lead to catastrophic failures. So, basically, the dam is only being held together by the embedded rebar. And who knows how good Chinese rebar is!
So...concrete that bends is still safely holding back this massive reservoir?
Who were the engineers who developed this loser dam? Ho Li Fuk, It Kno Brak, So Much Wata, Cra P. Dam and Kno Qual Itee?
Who were the engineers who developed this loser dam? Ho Li Fuk, It Kno Brak, So Much Wata, Cra P. Dam and Kno Qual Itee?
I ‘d bet they have a large Flex-Seal order in.
I don’t buy this “deformed but safe” business. It reminds me of the story of the Old River Control Structure, Louisiana.
Isn’t that what they said about the South Fork dam in Johnstown PA.?
Ah. Okay, good. I feel much better.
Trump’s fault.
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Flex tape from Chinese sources - minimum order 3000 bags. I think that’s not a problem meeting the minimum.
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