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DAM-L Three Gorges Probe: December 15, 2000 (fwd)
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Subject: Three Gorges Probe: December 15, 2000
THREE GORGES PROBE
December 15, 2000
(1) Yangtze flood control chief says, keep the alarm bells ringing
(2) 55,000 Three Gorges migrants slated for distance-
resettlement in 2001, says official
(3) Yangtze River cities launch water clean-up and conservation campaign
(1) Yangtze flood control chief says, keep the alarm bells ringing
Dec. 7, 2000 - A flood control chief in Hubei province warned
participants at a disaster management conference earlier this
month, that the Three Gorges dam would not safeguard against
flooding along the Yangtze. "Even after building the Three
Gorges dam, we are never off our guard against floods along the
Yangtze in Hubei Province," said Wan Hanhua, head of Hubei
province's water conservancy department, which is responsible
for controlling Yangtze floods.
After analyzing the flooding problem in Hubei province, experts
have concluded that the Three Gorges dam will be ineffective in
controlling floodwaters from the Lake Dongting river system
downstream of the dam. The dam will improve flood control
capacity somewhat by holding back floodwaters upstream, thus
providing downstream areas with protection against a 100-year
flood, up from the present level of flood protection against a 10-
year flood. But, it is still crucial, Hanhua said, to continue
reinforcing dykes and embankments and control soil erosion, even
after the Three Gorges dam is completed.
This story first appeared at http://www.cjwrc.edu.cn the official
web site of the Wuhan-based Changjiang Water Resources
Commission (formerly the Yangtze Valley Planning Office), a
central government agency under the Ministry of Water
Resources, responsible for planning and designing the Three
Gorges dam.
(2) Thousands of Three Gorges residents slated for resettlement in 2001
Dec. 7, 2000 - The Wuhan-based Changjiang Water Resources
Commission reports that 55,000 people will be moved out of the
Three Gorges area in 2001, according to Qi Lin, head of the
Three Gorges Project Construction Committee's Resettlement
Bureau. As part of the State Council's new directive for
overcoming land shortages and environmental pressures in the
Three Gorges reservoir area, 50,000 Chongqing Municipality
residents and 5,000 people from Hubei province will be moved to
11 different provinces and municipalities. So far about 7,500
people have been moved out of the Three Gorges area to rural
areas in Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu,
Jiangxi, Shandong, Shanghai, Sichuan, and Zhejiang.
This story first appeared on the Changjiang Water Resources
Commission's web site at http://www.cjwrc.edu.cn.
(3) Yangtze River cities launch water clean-up campaign
Dec. 5, 2000 - In an effort to tackle pollution in the Yangtze
River, 26 riverside cities have launched a basin-wide clean-up
campaign, reports Central China Television network. The cities
will co-operate to monitor water quality, implement water-saving
measures in urban areas, and set-up a program for controlling and
treating serious water pollution accidents.
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