CHINA / National
Huge funds embarked to clear Three Gorges Dam
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-05-19 10:47
China has to spend 10 million yuan (1.3 million U.S. dollars) annually to
prevent upstream garbage runoffs from piling up at the mammoth Three
Gorges Dam, so as to ensure safe operation of the world's largest water
control project.
According to officials with the China Yangtze Three Gorges Project
Development Corporation, the inflowing garbage runoffs for the Three
Gorges reservoir amount to 100,000-200,000 cubic meters annually, most of
which accumulate in flooding seasons.
The corporation has spent more than 20 million yuan (2.5 million
U.S.dollars) on building a runoff-clearing vessel, so far the largest of
its kind in China, the officials said.
Launched in 1993,the 180-billion-yuan (22.5 billion U.S.dollars) Three
Gorges project, including a 185-meter-high dam and 26 generators on both
banks of the Yangtze River, is being built in three phases on the middle
reach of the Yangtze.
It is scheduled for completion in 2009 and by then, it will be able to
generate 84. 7 billion kwh of electricity a year. The project will also
function to harness flooding and benefit shipping.
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