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Posted on 12/02/2007 11:40:57 AM PST by JACKRUSSELL
(HEFEI) -- A 100-meter stretch of the Yangtze River embankment in east China's Anhui province collapsed on Saturday, an official with the local waterway administration said.
The accident occurred early on Saturday in the marshlands near the river outside the city of Wuhu and resulted in more than 6,000square meters of land falling into the river.
About ten warehouses belonging to a shipyard, a few cranes and a barge fell in the water. No casualties were reported but an elderly couple was rescued from the barge before it toppled into the river.
Hu Guangjin, an official with the Wuhu Yangtze River Waterway Administration, said the collapsed area was mainly marshland and the top embankment of the Yangtze River dyke, and would not pose a threat to the main embankment.
"Water from the upper reaches of the river formed a vortex here, which exerted a strong force against the marshland and the embankment. This may have been the reason for the collapse," Hu said.
However, other people believe the construction of a new berth in the nearby Jiangdong Shipyard had loosened the foundations of the dyke and caused the collapse.
On Sunday morning, earth was still pouring into the river. All production has been suspended and repair work is underway.
“About ten warehouses belonging to a shipyard, a few cranes and a barge fell in the water.
I like the way they put it - yes, we lost some stuff, but here in China we have millions of warehouses, cranes, and barges, so they’re hardly worth counting.
If that dam fails, it would be a catastrophe - like the biggest flood since Noah’s time.
Doesn't the GOVERNMENT own everything there? IE: COSCO China Ocean Shipping "Company"
Cubic meters of land,
or square meters of land surface area?
Poor writing
but still a fair bit of structural failure
of hopefully stable shoreline
WGAS?
It’s not the damn that they have to worry about, it’s banks that contain all the back flooded regions or water that form the reservoir. Very poor geological surveying when they engineered that damn. What’s happening is water is soaking into those mostly earth hillsides and causing them to crumble.
All that water can find a new route anywhere along miles and miles of what they thought would have been a good natural reservoir and create a new yangtze river around the dam.
It’s to be expected i guess, nothing made in China lasts very long.
The Yangtze qualifies, it seems to me, as a mighty river, like the Ohio, the Missouri (The old Missou, she's a mighty river...) and the Mississippi. About every twenty years our watershed steps up to let us know that our control stretches only so far. I bet the Yangtze thinks along the same line, albeit in Chinese.
The levy failures in sin city were a good reminder of that.
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I couldn’t find him, either.
Too true. The years run together in this old head, but I seem to remember a time in the early to mid 1990's when the Mississippi drove her banks outward in both directions for hundreds of yards from St Paul to Hannibal. I remember reading historical articles suggesting a cyclic nature of this that went back as far as they had records.
It's sort of like the business cycle. So often our movers andshakers think they have it figured out, and they are smarter than everyone else that ever lived. One day they wake up and realize they butchered it somehow.
(Apologies to Vandyke Parks <}B^)
Are the hillsides supporting the dam stable?
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