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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Bad sensors? No. Chinese lies, yes. NEVER believe a word the Chinese government says, unless it is about how they are going to destroy America and dominate the world. That is the only thing you can believe. Dams, sensors, pandemic virus — they are evil bald face liars in every other respect. As transparent as lead shielding. Don’t believe it.
There was one more, I think. Dohn Eet It!!!
Thank you. I was about to go find those images.
Look on the bright side. One of the cities in the way of this thing is Wuhan.
CCP always one step behind in admitting damaging truth.
Dam was deformed some two years ago, but they denied it.
Something more menacing is now true, so now they admit to deformation.
Just explaining how those images came about.
Go to google maps, click satellite.
Find any dam or bridge in the world.
Save an image of the item.
Click on 3D view.
Rotate image and what was a straight bridge, road, or dam is now crooked.
No personal attack just demonstrating how that image was manipulated.
I saw an article Last week claiming the same.
That’s how I figured out how it was done.
He’s always been a reliable source of info.
So the rock underneath the dam is shifting? Plastic deformation in concrete seems to be their claim. Say it ain’t so!
Hey Jack!
Don’t attack me!!!!
Try attacking the original news source!!!!
Good grief...too many self-absorbed idiots on FR!
Chinese Communist Party officials are no different than the Russian Communist Party officials were during the Chernobyl disaster ...nothing to see here comrades move along.
Attack?
You must be one of those pansy-assed snowflakes I’ve heard of.
Trust me, if I were attacking you there would be no doubt.
Now grow up!
I don’t think concrete can bend that much without fractures. Even if it moved at expansion joints, still not good with all that pressure behind it.
200 mm = 20 cm = 7.9 inches
Maybe it was CM...I dunno he converted it on the show. It worked out to just over 40 inches whatever it was. GD metirc crap.
Tell you what. I will get the forecast for there if I can and get back to you with the link.
It will buff right out.
I wonder if Chinese concrete is any better than Chinese Drywall?
Sum Ting Wong
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