China`s Three Gorges Dam in danger of collapsing.....

[IronWing]

JediYoda's dam is (no lie) the Gezouba Dam, finished in 1988.

Gezhouba Dam - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Also, the Three Gorges ship lift is pretty cool.

 

[MtnMan]

For comparison, the current flood flows into the Three Gorges reservoir are 50-60,000 cubic meters per second. The mean flow rate of the Mississippi at Baton Rouge is 12,400 cubic meters/sec. The maximum flood flow on the Mississippi was ~30,000 cubic meters/sec.

In perspective, that flow is enough to fill Lake Michigan in 2.5 years.
Lake Michigan contains 4,900,000,000,000 cubic meters.
A flow of 60,000/sec = 3,600,000/min = 216,000,000/hour = 5,184,000,000/day = 1,892,160,000,000/year which is 38% of the water in lake Michigan.
That is a lot of water to try and keep under control.

 

[Svnla]

Is this dam worth it?

China's Three Gorges Dam is one of the largest ever created. Was it worth it?

The Three Gorges Dam was designed to tame China's longest river. But this summer's record rains reveal its limited ability to control floods.

www.cnn.com

 

[ch33zw1z]

Is this dam worth it?

China's Three Gorges Dam is one of the largest ever created. Was it worth it?

The Three Gorges Dam was designed to tame China's longest river. But this summer's record rains reveal its limited ability to control floods.

www.cnn.com

Based on the article, depends on who you ask lol

 

[KMFJD]

Anxiety grows as China’s Three Gorges dam hits highest level

Officials seek to reassure public after world’s largest hydro-electric dam nears capacity amid heavy floods

www.theguardian.com

The Three Gorges dam, which can handle inflows of about 98.8m liters a second, is already approaching its capacity.
Officials expect water levels in the reservoir, whose dam was built to withstand a water level of 175 meters, to reach 165.5 meters on Saturday.

this could get ugly

 

[K1052]

While it is probably fine I'm not sure I'd push it to full pool.