- severe damage to the masonry
- a crane failure that opens/closes the sluice gates
- several turbines (power generator) have failed (possibly three!?)
- extreme siltation (dirt) at the bottom of the dam, which additionally clogs and damages the turbines
The muck comes from the flooding and is currently settling on the dam.
So the dam is supposedly standing, but has been overflowing for weeks, which is why the water level is no longer rising. I don't know how many hundreds of villages there are flooded, but if a metropolis with 32 million people 600 km away from the dam is also flooded, then it is possibly very serious.
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Those computer-generated narratives can be hilarious. Three Georges Dam, as in George Bush or George Washington. But mispronunciations aside, while I wish nothing but total destruction on the CCP, I do feel profoundly bad for the Chinese people who simply want to live their lives but who will have their lives turned upside down from these poorly constructed dams. Many will die and we will never hear about it.
This is what happens when a population has no means to defend itself from a corrupt and incompetent government. They become serfs, expendable plug-and-play units that their overlords don't really care about. Lesson learned.
With the total blackout of info from there and only stock photos coming out, it's hard to even know what to think. Is the dam breaking, is it not breaking, what gives!?
I definitely feel bad for the innocent in the way if the thing does fail. I doubt they would be given any real notice, if so.
I've read somewhere -- don't ask me where, I read so much stuff nowadays -- that upward of 114 million people could be affected if / when the Three Gorges Dam collapses. Also, cities like Wuhan (yup, THAT Wuhan) could be under water.
I've heard something similar... numbers that are basically beyond comprehension. Almost seems unreal because we've been hearing it was collapsing for 2 or 3 years now, but that's probably how these things work. Could go whenever, I guess. I just hope they give them some warning, if it does.
Who helped build that damn ? If we did then it’s secure and it would be a DS blow up no?
Russians helped if I am remembering correctly what I read bout a year back.
Found some financiers
https://journal.probeinternational.org/three-gorges-probe/who-is-behind-chinas-three-gorges-dam/
Interesting ... I obviously misremembered then.
Maybe it's all planned for when real investigations start?
For months now, their smaller dams, bridges, tunnels have collapsed. People have invested in their building programs, but they are poorly build. Many homes do not last 5 years without serious repair. I’ve been praying for a year that 3 Gorges dam would hold for the sake of hundreds of millions downstream.
Houses in China. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XopSDJq6w8E
Tunnels in China. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0tbGaLTA4xk&t=193s
Bridges in China. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q00nTSAcMhs
Dams in China. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OTduG6Ft8CY&t=50s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise
Its a very different type of operation to bombardment with modern cruise missiles.. I wonder if there has ever been a variant of missile designed specifically with the right warheads and guidance systems to take out a dam base.
Duh, of course they have been designed. Almost certainly built, by multiple countries, and probably have war plans set for them for JIC scenarios. Relatively easy things to both design and build. Simply a combination of weapons that already exist and have been used extensively for decades. Taiwan and Japan would almost certainly have them, both have the resources, tech base, and experts to develop and construct them. They also have nothing to lose by using them in the case of Chinese invasion/attack. India could as well but considering their conventional arms, probably not needed or wanted as it could escalate into a nuclear exchange since it would be the only real response to such a mass casualty event.
The dams China makes to hoard water are making the rivers of countries downstream, Vietnam, Cambodia, etc. dry, cracked, useless land.
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/water-crisis-mekong-delta-cao-lanh-vietnam-march-due-to-el-nino-increasing-number-dams-upstream-seeing-its-68551989.jpg