China's Three Gorges Dam's floodings won't be happening--thanks to the flood prevention measures, and now the dam is stable. Nikkei Asian Review reported that the Chinese authorities provided a warning on Friday, July 17, and issued new alerts in downstream cities to give them a heads up on what may happen as the water level rises.
When the Three Gorges Dam was completed in 2006, China proudly claimed it could hold back the worst flood in 10,000 years.
Today the dam is at risk of collapse with 400 million lives in danger.
The CCP recently opened all floodgates - what happens next is out of their control. pic.twitter.com/ZyoKVtIUHh — Things China Doesn't Want You To Know (@TruthAbtChina) July 13, 2020
The rising water levels were stopped after the Three Gorges Reservoir activated its flood peak reduction and flood retention. The dam is now stable after the rising water levels were eased in the Yangtze River's middle and lower reaches. The Three Gorges project is a multifunctional water control system consisting of the 185-meter-high and 2,309-meter long dam, 34 hydropower turbo-generators, and a five-tier ship lock.
The flood prevention project was applied three times on Friday, preventing 6.6 billion cubic meters of water, which is the same size of 470 West Lakes in Hangzhou. More than 20 million people were stricken, and more than 1.7 million were forced to relocate because of the floodings that affected several provincial regions.
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