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| 3 Gorges dam suspends filling due to floating garbage, landslides & stranded ships |
| 2008-12-05 |
| I received this in an email newsletter, but the link goes to the source. Mountains of floating garbage, geological problems, and stranded cargo ships prompted China’s Three Gorges dam authority to suspend filling the dam’s reservoir to its final height last month, according to the popular magazine South Weekend (Nanfang Zhoumo). In early November, with just two metres to go before reaching a final reservoir height of 175 metres, the State Council’s Three Gorges project construction committee ordered a stop to the trial filling that began in late September. The decision, according to South Weekend, was prompted by three serious problems – a massive surge of floating garbage on the reservoir surface, hundreds of landslides and subsidence problems along the reservoir’s unstable shoreline and, most importantly, stranded cargo ships downstream of the dam caused by low water levels during reservoir filling. Story continues at the link. |
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