Big Trouble in Little China

[Mega]

Update:- Its raining hard!

[Mega]

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If this thing blows, what sort of cost is China looking at?

Mike

[Mega]

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Perhaps another Dam is about to burst?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...TH-income.html

[Chris Coles]

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Update:- Its raining hard!

The concrete was produced by an American corporation. It is the largest dam of it's type. There are always lessons to be learned when stretching beyond existing knowledge. The image showing a massive drift of some of the sections may well be contrived. One would need to go to the dam to visually confirm such movement. Every dam is designed to remain safe when the flow over tops the dam spillways. There is no reason to believe this dam was designed otherwise.

[Chris Coles]

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Perhaps another Dam is about to burst?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...TH-income.html

Every business lives a full life and then dies; some live a very long life, such as universities for many centuries; but today we live in a world that has created both great change, and consequential great opportunity.

[Mega]

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Agreed, I think they mis understood what the CCP has said, it can only hold back the water till it reaches the top.....at that point it will pour over.

[touchring]

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Every dam is designed to remain safe when the flow over tops the dam spillways. There is no reason to believe this dam was designed otherwise.

The purpose of a dam to is hold back water until it overflows. The controversy was the dam opened the flood gates in late June even when the water levels were much lower than a couple years before, leading to speculation that the dam was structurally weaker than it was previously.

For me, the smoking gun is the unusually strong official denials even when main stream media haven't really taken up the issue.

[Chris Coles]

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The purpose of a dam to is hold back water until it overflows. The controversy was the dam opened the flood gates in late June even when the water levels were much lower than a couple years before, leading to speculation that the dam was structurally weaker than it was previously.

For me, the smoking gun is the unusually strong official denials even when main stream media haven't really taken up the issue.

That is something I did not know about, which begs the question, is there a more detailed report currently available to show us what has recently occurred at the dam? Without such we are all in the dark.

[touchring]

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That is something I did not know about, which begs the question, is there a more detailed report currently available to show us what has recently occurred at the dam? Without such we are all in the dark.

It's all over Youtube, lots of talk about it. Just like covid, there's no "report" of where it came from and what happened. All are speculation.

[Chris Coles]

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It's all over Youtube, lots of talk about it. Just like covid, there's no "report" of where it came from and what happened. All are speculation.

Thanks, can you provide a link to what you consider to be a credible report please.

[touchring]

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Thanks, can you provide a link to what you consider to be a credible report please.

Here's a Chinese state media report on 30 June before the floods became serious.

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-06-3...UFG/index.html

The Three Gorges Dam located in central China's Yichang City discharged water on Monday. The move aimed at reducing the reservoir's water level from 147.51 meters days ago down to a safe level of 145 meters, following days of heavy rain.

[Chris Coles]

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Here's a Chinese state media report on 30 June before the floods became serious.

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-06-3...UFG/index.html

Thank you, but that is not what I wished to see; what I need, please, is a credible report showing the suspected damage to the dam itself; actual images of the shift of the line of the dam.

[shiny!]

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" ... following days of heavy rain."

I'm just shaking my head. Here the BIG NEWS is the 0.07" of rain we got today at the airport. Our first measurable rain in 103 days. YAY!!!

The world's a funny place.

[Chris Coles]

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" ... following days of heavy rain."

I'm just shaking my head. Here the BIG NEWS is the 0.07" of rain we got today at the airport. Our first measurable rain in 103 days. YAY!!!

The world's a funny place.

By chance, this very morning, a friend in North Island New Zealand reports that a friend of his, further north, has just reported that they had 250mm, just under 10 inches of rain.

[thriftyandboringinohio]

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Thank you, but that is not what I wished to see; what I need, please, is a credible report showing the suspected damage to the dam itself; actual images of the shift of the line of the dam.

Dams are more complex than just a log thrown across a stream. There are a few different construction types, and each has more than one mode of failure.
Some of the failure modes are not visible in aerial photography. Some failures are structural (cracks and breaks and movement) and some are hydraulic (seeps and boils and undermining).