#Torrential rains cause record flooding from China’s Yangtze River
“#Torrential rains cause record flooding from China’s Yangtze River”
August 22, 2020 | 12:57pm
Torrential rains caused record water levels at the Three Gorges Dam in China.
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Rainfall in the Yangtze basin has been twice as heavy as normal this year and resulting floods have caused at least $26 billion in economic damages and affected as many as 63 million people, Reuters reported Saturday.
About 75,000 cubic meters per second of water flowed in from the Yangtze river Thursday, pushing the reservoir’s depths almost 20 meters higher than the official warning level.
“They will do everything they can to prevent the dam from overtopping,” said Desiree Tullos, a professor at Oregon State University who studies the Three Gorges project.
“An overtopping dam is a worst-case scenario because it produces significant damage … and can lead to the entire thing collapsing.”
The Three Gorges Project was completed in 2012. It was aimed at both generating power and reining in the ferocious Yangtze, the cause of many terrible floods in Chinese history.
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