The effects of the three gorges dam

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The River:

The Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang, is China’s longest river. The name Yangtze translates as, longest river. It is also the longest in Asia and is ranked third world-wide, after the Nile and the Amazon. It’s source has an elevation of about 16,000 feet in the Kunlun Mountains in Tibet, in the Qinghai Province, flowing eastwards towards Shangai to it’s mouth, 6,380km later.

The Mouth of the River

The Dam

The Three Gorges region is located along the  between the cities of  (奉节) and  in  municipality and  province.

The gorges are a great tourist attraction. There are towns and cities built within the region.

The dam is to be built in a place called , which is in the middle of the gorges. The reservoir was completed in the summer of 2006, and the water level in the Qutang, Wuxia, and the western portion of the Xiling Gorges has already begun to rise. The dam is predicted to be completed in 2009.

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Project Schedule

The dam was expected to take 17 years to build which was split into three different stages. The dam actually took

5 years (1993 - 1997) Preparation period and first stage construction.
6 years (1998 - 2003) Second stage construction
6 years (2003 - 2009) Third stage construction

First Stage (1993 - 1997)                                                                        The first stage involved preparation work and in 1994 the project begun.  This started the filling of the cofferdam (to allow water to be replaced with air to make a ...

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