"Flooding threat eases in China; Water drains from quake-formed lake" by Cara Anna, Associated Press | June 8, 2008
MIANYANG, China - Water poured from a massive lake formed by China's deadly earthquake in a carefully engineered diversion yesterday to ease the threat of flooding for a million people in the sprawling disaster zone.
After two weeks of frantic work by engineers and soldiers, waters flowed into the hurriedly built spillway, but at a rate too slow to cause the lake's level to drop. Military engineers dynamited boulders and soldiers used excavators to deepen the channel to accelerate the flow, state media said.
"The lake was still dangerous despite the draining," the official Xinhua News Agency quoted Chen Lei, minister of Water Resources, as saying late yesterday.
The Tangjiashan lake, created when a landslide dammed the Tongkou River, has become a priority for a government hoping to head off another catastrophe even as it cares for millions left homeless from the May 12 quake that killed nearly 70,000 people....
Now why do I feel the next section is more cover-up from the AmeriKan and Western press?
A powerful quake in 1786 in another part of Sichuan dammed the Dadu River, which burst through the landslide 10 days later, killing more than 100,000 people, according to research published in 2005 in the scientific journal Geomorphology.
Yeah, whatever it was, it couldn't have been HAARP!
Not like my War Dailiy press here in AmeriKa would ever lie or cover anything up.
The Tangjiashan lake is the largest of more than 30 created by last month's quake, and draining it safely will depend on controlling the outflow of water, said David Petley, a professor of geography at Britain's Durham University.
If water flows too slowly from the lake, pressure will continue to build up behind the dam. If the flow is too fast, it could erode the 1,550-foot drainage channel constructed by the government, creating a steeper, narrower course that would pull in water more rapidly, potentially causing the dam to collapse, Petley said.
"The Chinese government have responded to this in an impressive manner," Petley said. "I don't believe that much more could have been done. Unfortunately the scale of the problem means that management is very challenging."
Unbelievable! This after the AmeriKan MSM has been bashing China for the last two weeks?
Pfffffttt!
Take a look at my China labels if you don't believe me.
As waters flowed out of the lake, engineers monitored bridges and riverbanks downstream to see whether they would hold, and work crews were trying to dig a secondary channel to improve the draining, China Central Television and Xinhua reported."
By the way, NO BURMA today!
