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| Garbage islands threaten Three Gorges Dam |
| 2010-08-02 |
| BEIJING (Reuters) -- Thousands of tons of garbage washed down by recent torrential rain are threatening to jam the locks of China's massive Three Gorges Dam, and is in places so thick people can stand on it, state media said on Monday. Chen Lei, a senior official at the China Three Gorges Corporation, told the China Daily that 3,000 tons of rubbish was being collected at the dam every day, but there was still not enough manpower to clean it all up. China does not have enough manpower? "The large amount of waste in the dam area could jam the miter gate of the Three Gorges Dam," Chen said, referring to the gates of the locks which allow shipping to pass through the Yangtze River. The river is a crucial commercial artery for the upstream city of Chongqing and other areas in China's less-developed western interior provinces. Pictures showed a huge swathe of the waters by the dam crammed full of debris, with cranes brought in to fish out a tangled mess, including shoes, bottles, branches and Styrofoam. |
| Posted by:mom |
| #4 "HOUSE-WARMING"??? That was room-worthy, JosephM. Promise you won't need to remove any dead bodies when you get there, 'k? ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-08-02 22:58 |
| #3 I still recall TV film footage of CHINESE KIDDIES PLAYING, FROLICKING IN + AROUND MASSIVE MOUNDS OF RIVERBANK GARB-A-G-E + VARIABLY COLORED WATERS. ION MSM-NET > Most recently in the PHILIPPINES, poverty-stricken Locals are repor building whole makeshift Villages = Tent Cities/Camps atop, within, andor alongside CEMETERY MAUSOLEUMS, etc. They repor are removing the entombed dead in order to make "living space" for their Families + personal wares??? TOMB OPENINGS + REMOVAL OF THE DEAD = "HOUSE-WARMING"??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-08-02 19:44 |
| #2 Flashbacks of Johnstown, crosspatch? |
| Posted by: Dar 2010-08-02 19:27 |
| #1 Nothing a few gallons of diesel and a match wouldn't fix. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2010-08-02 15:59 |