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2004-09-07 China-Japan-Koreas

China's Three Gorges on Alert After Floods Kill 76

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Posted by .com 2004-09-07 2:19:17 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Shuckey darn! You mean those cracks in the dam face will do what Taiwan has been planning on anyway?!?

"China says that 80 cracks have appeared in the Three Gorges dam, only days after the huge reservoir behind it was filled for the first time ... "If water enters these cracks, there could be negative effects, so we are fixing them very carefully," Pan Jiazhong, head of the dam's inspection group, said yesterday."

Posted by Zenster 2004-09-07 2:38:58 AM|| 2004-09-07 2:38:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I pray to God that the Chinese are better engineers than I think they are. If the dam goes, the SARs cover-up will look like a misdemeanor in comparison.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-09-07 3:16:36 AM|| 2004-09-07 3:16:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The dam is typical Commie crap--it's the "biggest" and the shittiest.
Hope the poor slobs downriver from it know how to swim.

Posted by GreatestJeneration 2004-09-07 3:32:27 AM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-09-07 3:32:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 SH: I pray to God that the Chinese are better engineers than I think they are.

I don't think the problem is the quality of the engineers. It's the quality of the construction. Most of these Chinese billionaires you hear about made their money from government contracts. And the primary method for making that much money from government contracts is to cut corners and to make things below specs - using shoddy (and cheaper) construction materials and methods to save money, which directly lines the contractors' pockets.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-09-07 9:59:42 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2004-09-07 9:59:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey, what's a little fly-ash between friends 'eh?

Posted by Shipman 2004-09-07 10:20:01 AM|| 2004-09-07 10:20:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Cracks in the face already? Just how many millions of people will get washed away when this sucker lets loose? Take the Johnstown PA dam disaster and multiply by say 1,000 or 10,000.

Posted by Craig 2004-09-07 11:36:50 AM|| 2004-09-07 11:36:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Hey, what's a little fly-ash between friends 'eh?

heh heh - good memory, Ship. Alaska Paul and I have been going back and forth on when, not if, this piece of shit will bust. The flyash content was many times higher than we permit in structural concrete, but did keep the costs down....typical commie crapÂ©

Posted by Frank G 2004-09-07 11:51:48 AM|| 2004-09-07 11:51:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Yeah... Frank, I remembered reading that bit about the fly ash.... but didn't even the Soviet Union over-engineer dams and bridges? Just to cover this sort of endemic sponging at the margins?

Posted by Shipman 2004-09-07 6:25:34 PM|| 2004-09-07 6:25:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Here is the website of Three gorges Dam probe. I get a newsletter from them once a week. It is definitely the ultimate Communist Megaproject. Lots of issues raised, and many people have been severely impacted by the construction of the dam, and critics have not fared so well, either.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-09-07 10:07:09 PM|| 2004-09-07 10:07:09 PM|| Front Page Top

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