Covered 193000km² of land, covered the city of Wuhan for 3 months, over 18million people had to move and 3319 were killed
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What did they do to try and stop the floods?
They built 46 dams and 3600km of levees were built along the middle and lower parts of the river
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Info about the Three Gorges Dam....
This is the biggest dam that was built, 101m high, started construction in 1994, stores 22km³ of water and releases it slowly, and its the biggest hydro-electric power station with 26 turbines
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Good effects:
Reduced flooding from once evry 10 years to once every 100 year, can produce 22.5 gigawatts of electricity and its safer to navigate up the yangtze
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What was submerged under the dams?
13 cities, 1352 vilages, farmland, 657 factories and 1300 sites of culture and history including the Zhang Fei temple
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If dams builds up sediment...
the dam will fail and the floods would be catastrophic
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Tributaries...
like the Daning river will flood more, the dams do not protect everyone....
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What happened to lots of animals in the area where the dams were built?
Their habitats were destroyed and some species became endangered like the siberian crane and baiji dolphins
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