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English: This image captures the flooding behind the Three Gorges Dam (north is up). This photograph was acquired with a Nikon 2DXs digital camera fitted with a 180 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Centre. Instrument: ISS - Digital Camera
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 January 2025. Dam in Yiling District, Hubei, China Dam in Yiling District, Hubei Three Gorges Dam 三峡大坝 The dam in September 2009 Location in Hubei Province Show map of Hubei Three Gorges Dam (China) Show map of China Country China Location Sandouping, Yiling District, Hubei Coordinates 30°49 ...
Water levels at China's giant Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river are inching closer to their maximum after torrential rains raised inflows to a record high, official data showed on Friday.
As China counts the costs of its most punishing flood season in more than three decades, the role played by the massive and controversial Three Gorges Dam - designed to help tame the Yangtze river ...
The dam's outflow released 40,000 m 3 /s of water, with 30,000 m 3 /s of the river flow held back behind the dam, after water levels in the Reservoir rose four metres (13 ft) overnight. [66] The reservoir water levels peaked at 160 metres (520 ft) meters on the morning of July 23, whereas the "alarm level" of the reservoir was at 145 metres ...
The outlay for building the dam is expected to eclipse the 254.2bn yuan (£27.80bn) it cost to construct the Three Gorges dam. The Yarlung Zangbo river is seen during a government organized visit ...
In the wake of the 1935 and 1954 floods, there was increased public support for the idea. However, the project was abandoned during the second China Civil War. The plans were then resurrected in 1994 and in 2012, the dam became operational. This dam was called the Three Gorges Dam. Currently, it has the capacity to hold 22 cubic kilometres of ...
About 40 kilometres (25 mi) of the river's lower course forms an arm of the Wu Gorge (Big Gorge or Second Gorge) of the Three Gorges, now submerged in up to 30 metres (100 ft) of water from Three Gorges Reservoir. In late 2008, geological instabilities caused landslides with volumes of 20,000 and 50,000 cubic metres (26,000 and 65,000 cu yd).