Gezhouba Dam
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The Gezhouba Dam or Gezhouba Water Control Project (
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The facility boasts a generating capacity of 2.71 GW along with three ship locks, two power stations that generate 14,100 GWh of electricity annually. It has 27 gates of spillway, and a non-flowing Dam on both banks. The dam is 2,595 metres (8,514 ft) long with a maximum height of 47 metres (154 ft). The reservoir has a total volume of 1.58 cubic kilometres (1,280,000 acre⋅ft).
The navigation lock No.2 on the third channel was, when built, among the 100 largest in the world. The lock chamber is 280 metres (920 ft) long and 34 metres (112 ft) wide, with a minimum draft of 5 metres (16 ft) at the sill. It provides passage for 10,000 ton ships.
The construction of the Gezhouba Dam, and others on the Yangtze, is considered by scientists to be one of the main causes of the decline and extinction of the Chinese paddlefish.[3][4]
See also
References
- ^ Gezhouba, China, Power Technology, Nov 2021, retrieved 2022-09-12
- ^ "Gezhouba Dam Project". Green Travel. Archived from the original on 4 April 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
- ^ "14 Animals Declared Extinct - Chinese Paddlefish". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
- ^ "THE CHINESE PADDLEFISH, ONE OF WORLD'S LARGEST FISH, HAS GONE EXTINCT". National Geographic. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
External links
- Pictures of Gezhouba Dam & Gezhouba Shiplock Archived 2019-10-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Hubei: Gezhouba Water Control Project
- China News: Gezhouba Dam
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