China - Floods - Land Fissures - 30000 now Trapped in a Town - Three Gorges Dam - It is a Horrible Ongoing Situation in China!

UPDATE - 8/02/10 - New Problems at Three Gorges Dam - Trash is piling up behind the dam and can jam the hydroelectric part, Chinese officials have stated.

The garbage is so thick in parts of the river that people can walk on the surface, reports said.

Nearly three tonnes of refuse are collected from the dam every day, but operators are struggling with inadequate manpower and equipment as rubbish accumulates more quickly due to rain-triggered floods, the China Daily reported.

UPDATE - 8/2/10 - Over 7000 Chemical Barrels had gone into the river, over 3000 of them contained explosive chemicals and 3000 were empty.  The Chinese authorities have not said how many they have collected as of yet.  
 

A total of 3,662 barrels were filled with colorless and highly explosive chemicals - mainly trimethyl chloro silicane and hexamethyl disilazane - and 3,476 others were empty.

However, water quality tests showed the Songhua River, a major drinking source for millions in the region, had not been contaminated, said officials with the Jilin provincial government.

In a similar accident Friday, 1,500 sealed drums containing oil, resin and fertilizer sunk in floodwaters in the Central China city of Wuhan, on the Yangtze River.

But all the drums had been safely recovered and the water quality of the Yangtze River was not affected.

UPDATE - 7/28/10  Here are some pictures of the Flooding of the city Jilin - China - which trapped 30,000 people.

The picture above is showing some of the 1000 barrels of explosive chemicals washed into the river from containers.  The Chinese authorities have said the river has tested clean and the chemicals are not a problem.  But as we all know, authorities don't always tell the truth.


China has been having the Worst Flooding imaginable over the last month.  I have been updating what is going on at the Three Gorges Dam and the Water against it, everyday.

Three Gorges Updates

MY ORIGINAL RESEARCH OF THE THREE GORGES DAM - Extensive research about the Three Gorges Dam and the Problems with it.

Today besides the Update on the Three Gorges Dam, the flooding around China is Horrendous!  There is now a town that 30000 are trapped in China's Jilin province, due to the Flooding.  

Besides the Flooding, there are Earth Fissures popping up in Central China's Hunan province! 
Pictures are at the above link.

China is having an amazing amount of Flooding problems with over 800 now dead, hundreds missing and the rain keeps pouring.  But the land fissures mean something is happening with the Earth and there is movement of it.  Is all of this ultimately from the Three Gorges Dam?

Once you read the Original research I did, the possibility is there that the Three Gorges Dam is the catalyst for all the rain and land movement happening.  The weight of the water being held back is not natural, due to the dam with that the weather has changed and that weight could be causing the problems elsewhere.  Sounds outrageous? Read the Research!

Three Gorges Dam about to have Most Water Ever Against it, coming down the Yangtze River!

UPDATE 7/28/10 - New Flood Surge Hits the Three Gorges - Video at link also.

UPDATE 7/27/10 - Wednesday, Flood Peak is going to be against the Three Gorges Dam.   Now 823 Dead and 437 Missing from the Floods.

UPDATE 7/26/10 - More water is about to go against Dam, after a 3 day lull.  The water is expected to exceed the previous high water amount behind it, as they brace for More Flooding.

UPDATE 7/24/10 - Officials keep changing how much water the Three Gorges Dam can Hold Back. First it was a 10000 year flood, then 1000 year floods, now 100 year floods.  It is Still raining and more water is expected against the dam.  

Portion of article:

Seven years ago, Chinese officials boasted the dam could withstand floods so severe they come only once every 10,000 years. 

But as the current flooding in central China _ especially along the country's largest river, the Yangtze _ shows no sign of waning, officials now warn the dam's capacity is limited.

Since the completion of the Three Gorges Dam in 2006, confidence in its flood capacity has diminished.

In 2007, officials said the dam could withstand the worst flood in 1,000 years.

Then on Tuesday, the Three Gorges Corporation's chairman, Cao Guangjing, told China Daily he can "absolutely guarantee" the dam can withstand the worst flood in 100 years.

 

UPDATE 7/23/10 -  Floods leave 742 Dead 367 missing - 670000 homes wiped out - affecting 120 million 
This is just horrible! 
FYI -  The most flood waters against the dam are expected today.   
 
UPDATE 7/22/10 - Dam Holding back 40% of Flood Waters
 The Dam is holding back 40% of the Flood waters from what this article above says.  So, how much water is against it, putting pressure on it?  Also something I am noticing of all the pictures released.... ONLY the side that is releasing water is shown, no picture shows how high the water is on the upper side of the dam.  


UPDATE 7/22/10 - 701 People have been killed in the floods - 7 million hectares of Farm Land has been affected and 645000 homes have been destroyed!  This is just sickening!

UPDATE 7/21/10 Three Gorges Holding UP - Most water expected against it on Friday.

The discharge of the Three Gorges Dam was raised to 40,000 cubic meters every second at 10 am and will remain at that level for the coming days, Chen said.

"The peak flow is high, but it has not exceeded the designed capacity that can bear the flood flow of 98,800 cubic meters every second," he said.

On Tuesday, the water level of the dam reached 150 meters, about five meters higher than the warning level, China Central Television reported.

The maximum water level of the dam is expected to reach 158 meters on Friday and the water volume stored will reach seven billion cubic meters, according to authorities at the Yangtze River flood control headquarters.

UPDATE 7/20/10 China Closing Three Gorges Dam, Shipping Locks due to the Water level - highest Ever!


This is one previous post I have done about The Three Gorges Dam, and the original extensive Research I have done about it.

Updates on Three Gorges Dam

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Just one Article out Today of Two about the Three Gorges Dam.   Three Gorges Faces Biggest Challenge EVER.

The China Three Gorges Corporation forecast that floods as huge as those in 1998 will occur.

The peak flow of the coming flood has been forecast at 70,000 cubic meters a second, greater than the 50,000 cubic meters a second during the flood in 1998, when 4,150 people were killed and 18.4 million residents evacuated.

The Three Gorges navigation administration said on Saturday it will close ship locks if floods gush in at a speed of up to 45,000 cubic meters a second.

At least 146 people have already been confirmed dead and 40 missing in 10 provinces and Chongqing municipality by Friday, after continuous rainstorms and floods in the areas since July 1, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said.

Heavy rains have inflated water flow at both the mainstream and tributaries of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, with inflow from the Minjiang, Tuojiang and Jialing rivers rising fast, said Wang Jun, director of the hydrology bureau under the Changjiang Water Resources Commission.

There is an article today, saying the MOST amount of Water ever is about to go against the Three Gorges Dam, as all the flood waters are making their way down the Yangtze River.

Floodwater rushes through the sluice gates of the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, central China's Hubei province on July 19, 2010. The reservoir's inflow rose up to 58,000 cubic meters a second at 8:00 am this morning, the highest this year. The Bureau of Hydrology of the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Commission predicts that the most horrible flood to date with the largest water gush at a speed of nearly 70,000 cubic meters a second is being brewed at the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. The China Three Gorges Corporation has stepped up its protective measures by escalating its sluicing to 40,000 cubic meters a second to brace for the largest flood since its operation. [Photo/Xinhua]

UPDATE 7/20/10 - Shortage of Funds stall Three Gorges Dam Ecological Plans for Three Gorges Dam

BEIJING - Several ecological programs planned for the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest one of its type, have remained stalled due to a shortage of funds, authorities said on Wednesday.

Scientists and scholars have expressed doubts about the dam's impact on the environment, such as the increasing risks of landslides, waterborne diseases and earthquakes.

In a bid to put the doubts at rest, the government launched a 10-year pollution control plan in 2001. But the results have not been optimistic, experts said.

Since 2003, seven rivers in the Three Gorges area in Hubei have been plagued by a blue algae outbreak.

Climate change and the construction of water reservoirs have increased the possibilities of the blue algae outbreak in the Yangtze River, Zhang Tong said.

Zhang Lijun said some water samples in the Three Gorges area were found unsafe, adding the blue algae outbreak is increasing not only in rivers but also in lakes.

The industries along the river also threaten the environment in the Three Gorges area, because some heavy-polluting enterprises are emitting pollutants into the river, Zhang Lijun said.