3 Gorges Dam

[TexasFreedom]

I haven't seen this discussed here yet. Short summary: large areas of China are having 100 year or even 1000 year rainfall. Much of it above one of the world's largest dams: Three Gorges Dam.

It's been disputed for years. Shoddy materials, design, and workmanship. When built 10-20 years ago, it was the world's largest dam. I read where, when full, it actually slows the earth's rotation by 0.xx microseconds per day.

I think the worst of the rains are supposed to end today, but it will be a week or two before the downstream flow at the dam subsides. A few days ago it was 20 meters above 'flood' stage, 10 meters below 'critical' stage.

When built, China claimed it was good for 1000 years. And a year or two later said it would be a 100 year protection. And a year or two later they said that people shouldn't completely rely on the dam system (oops!). If this dam fails, millions could die. And several major cities from Wuhan to Shanghai would flood like never before. The worldwide economic impact would be huge.

But finding reliable news sources on the status of the dam are few and far between. Anyone have a good source?

 

[DrHenley]

I haven't seen this discussed here yet.

We started talking about it a month ago.
https://www.doomsdayprepperforums.com/threads/china-possible-dam-failure.12950

 

[Morgan101]

The Chinese would die a thousand deaths before they told the truth. Good luck trying to find anything reliable. We will find out when there is news footage of a million China men bobbing in the South China Sea.

 

[Proud Prepper]

Epoch Times

 

[Oddcaliber]

Made in China! Enough said.

 

[TexasFreedom]

https://asiatimes.com/2020/07/three-gorges-dam-under-fast-mounting-flood-pressure/
Wow. It talks about flow rates. But the big news is the last sentence:
These provinces will see 180 millimeters in daily rainfall throughout the rest of the week, with some areas experiencing up to 70mm of rain per hour.

180mm of daily rain. For a week. That is 7 inches of rain. Per day. And the dam is already at it's breaking point, letting water flood downstream cities to hope to avoid a complete collapse. Wowser.

 

[DrHenley]

On Monday evening, stormwater started to pour into the reservoir of the Three Gorges Dam in the Yangtze’s middle reaches at more than 60,000 cubic meters per second.

To put that number in perspective, a 2 meter deep Olympic swimming pool holds 2,500 cubic meters. So 24 Olympic swimming pools worth of water every second.

 

[Arcticdude]

And how is it a bad thing if it fails? Made in China. Of course its junk.

 

[Maverick]

And that's coming on the heels of china government releasing a statement today that a major resurgence of covid19 this time through all providence's in china.

People are evacing the low lands below the damn, they were ordered to stay in their homes due to covid. hmm

 

[DrHenley]

People are evacing the low lands below the damn, they were ordered to stay in their homes due to covid. hmm

Double hmm

 

[jontte]

well,if there are corona virus in the area,they will let them drown and fix the problem that way, they just dig deep trenches and shuffle the bodies in,problem solved.

 

[jayjay]