CHINA YANGTZE RIVER SANDOUPING Lock gates and water level measure at the Three Gorges Dam site
CHINA YANGTZE RIVER SANDOUPING Lock gates and water level measure at the Three Gorges Dam site Sanxia Shuili Shuniu Gongcheng on the Yangtze Changjiang River The 24 billion Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze will be the largest hydroelectric dam in the world It spans nearly a mile across and 575 feet above the world s third longest river the Yangtze Its reservoir stretches over 350 miles upstream and will force the displacement of close to 1 9 million people Construction began in 1994 and is scheduled for completion by 2009
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