Why do I think there's more news coming up??

[miningman]

https://news.sky.com/story/china-at...e-river-rises-50ft-above-flood-level-12031215

 

[miningman]

looks like the 72 hour forecast is for heavy rain thru till Sunday afternoon , then moderating. China seems to be fixated with its arguments with the USA and might not be giving this area the attention it deserves. Supposedly 400 million live downstream of this dam

 

[zeusfaber]

failure of this dam would be the most 2020 thing so far

There's a turn of phrase I haven't heard before. Can't decide whether I'd like it still to be part of the language in twenty years' time.

A.

 

[miningman]

Based on the attachment supplied by 3DDave , it looks as tho inflow is now 150% of discharge volume , and unsurprisingly , water level at the dam continues to rise. Sur glad Im not responsible for advising what course of action to be taken on a daily basis,

 

[WinelandV]

Based on the attachment supplied by 3DDave , it looks as tho inflow is now 150% of discharge volume , and unsurprisingly , water level at the dam continues to rise. Sur glad Im not responsible for advising what course of action to be taken on a daily basis,

You can always do what the Army Corp did on the Missouri River - increase the outputs of the dams, even if it floods low areas downstream (like downtown Omaha, and the Ft. Calhoun Power Station). If you're trying to avoid the catastrophic failure, at least.

 

[miningman]

Still rising

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...orges-dam-highest-level-hydro-electric-floods

 

[r13]

This is China's Three Gorges Dam. Construction started on 1994, operation started on 2003. Below is a glance of its dimensions and power generation capacity.

Made of concrete and steel, the dam is 2,335 m (7,661 ft) long and the top of the dam is 185 m (607 ft) above sea level. The project used 27.2 million m3 (35.6 million cu yd) of concrete (mainly for the dam wall), used 463,000 tonnes of steel (enough to build 63 Eiffel Towers), and moved about 102.6 million m3 (134.2 million cu yd) of earth.[37] The concrete dam wall is 181 m (594 ft) high above the rock basis.

The Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest capacity hydroelectric power station with 34 generators: 32 main generators, each with a capacity of 700 MW, and two plant power generators, each with capacity of 50 MW, making a total capacity of 22,500 MW.[11] Among those 32 main generators, 14 are installed in the north side of the dam, 12 in the south side, and the remaining six in the underground power plant in the mountain south of the dam. Annual electricity generation in 2015 was 87 TWh, which is 20 times more than the Hoover Dam.

There are multiple reasons for the construction of this dam albeit under the fierce protests from the environmental groups, and quite a few science communities.