Chapter 416: Dam Danger
At 11 a.m. on the 12th, five minutes after the earthquake, aftershocks continued, and the destructive power of the earthquake continued.
As the world's largest water conservancy hub, the Three Gorges Dam has the capital of thousands of dams in the world.
The design, which can withstand a magnitude 8 earthquake, can be said to be impregnable. Who knew that this earthquake was shaken by a magnitude 6 earthquake. It is not that the intensity of the earthquake in this area is that there is no magnitude 11 at the epicenter, but that the aftershocks are continuous and resonate. In this way, the dam was shattered by countless small earthquakes. The resonance increased the damage to a strength similar to that of the epicenter. The problem is that the left side of the dam is connected to the mountain, which is hollowed out in the mountain, and there are culverts and generator sets in it. After all, mountains are not as strong as dams. A large crack appeared in the third culvert on the left. If it is not treated, the water pressure of more than 40 meters can wash away the culverts and further destroy the mountain. In that case, a gap of more than 300 meters will be formed, which is similar to a bungee. The situation downstream is critical, and now the dam has opened all the gates, which has achieved the effect of reducing the inventory and lowering the water level, but the inventory can reach hundreds of billions of cubic meters of water. A few days ago, Xiang Ming was still here to draw water for flood fighting and rescue work! Although only a few days have passed, the situation of flood fighting and rescue is still very grim, and it is only with Xiang Ming's help that he has temporarily avoided the danger of overflowing the embankment.
The danger of the flood has not passed, and now there is a major earthquake, and it is really a house leak that touches a continuous fish, and the disaster is not a single line.
To solve this crisis, according to the normal procedure, the water level must be lowered below the mouth of the culvert before pouring concrete for maintenance, pouring concrete takes time, and it takes time to wait for it to be strong, isn't it! But the danger waits for no one, the scope near the collapsed gate in the culvert is constantly expanding, that is to say, the gate can no longer seal the water, the water gushes out from the place where the gate is destroyed, and the gap is constantly expanding under the action of the strong water flow.
At the current full load of flood discharge speed, it is an impossible task to reduce the water level to a height of 60 meters, unless God opens his eyes and the upstream water flow rate is reduced when it does not rain upstream for the next two days. If the water is released at the current rate, it will not be possible to lower the water level in less than five days. However, even at the current rate, and taking into account the needs of downstream flood control, many sections of the downstream river have just dropped below the warning water level.
Xiang Ming was in the headquarters of the conference room, listening to everyone's opinions, and also waiting for the discussion of the bigwigs. After all, Xuantian No. 1 needs time to get to the dam hundreds of kilometers away, doesn't it?
"The chief just put forward a suggestion on the dam that is, to put large objects from the mouth of the culvert to completely seal the culvert, and they are also trying, putting a lot of more than a dozen cubic meters of large cement blocks into it, but the water pressure is very high, and the volume of the object is too small. Not only will we not achieve the purpose of this object stuck in the gap of the gate, but it will damage the gate! Ma Buwei, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, reports!
If the object is smaller than the breach, it will not be stuck, and the force of the water can wash the object out. It's too big to get into the culvert, which is really troublesome. If you ask the staff on the dam to find a few hundred cubic meters for a while, and it is a suitable object to plug the culvert, you can find it, transportation is a big problem, and how to put it when it is transported to the dam is also a problem.
Xiang Ming didn't continue to listen to their briefings, thinking in his heart. In fact, for Xiang Ming, this matter is indeed very simple! Isn't it just plugging a hole? A culvert with a diameter of 15. Xiang Ming's open holes are all dug in tens of meters or hundreds of meters.
Isn't it just to dig a big stone pillar with a diameter of 15 meters and a length of several tens of meters? If one piece is not strong, then we can build more than a dozen pieces, and there is no problem in blocking this section of culvert from below to the water outlet.
By the way, Xiang Ming took some more water, hehe, don't have too much, ask for tens of billions of cubic meters of water, as his own hard work. A few days ago, Xiang Ming made a lot of money from the south-to-north water diversion, and he made a whole 20 billion dragon coins, which is simply the price of cabbage, 2 cents a cubic meter. Xiang Ming didn't store it in the space this time, after all, only 100 million cubic meters of water could be placed there, and Xiang Ming directly put the water into the rivers and lakes in the space planet. The next time I go to the north, I will put the water in the north. In the north, the drought begins to be more severe in autumn. At that time, Xiang Ming thought to himself, hehe, seeing that your Ministry of Water Resources is still so picky, a few days ago, hundreds of billions of cubic meters of water only gave 20 billion dragon coins.
This kind of thing, the above is indeed sorry for Xiang Ming, but Xiang Ming is not a fool, he was cheated once, he will not be generous for the second time, there is no 1 yuan and 100 million cubic meters of water, don't think about asking for Xiang Ming's water again.
"Yang Mengmeng, let's go first, hehe, take you to the Three Gorges Dam to play!" Xiang Ming said to Yang Mengmeng beside him.
"Okay! I haven't been to the Three Gorges since I'm so old!" Yang Mengmeng was very happy.
"Let's go, let's go outside and find a corner!"
"Hmm!" Yang Mengmeng understood what Xiang Ming was going to do, that is, to teleport over!
"Wait, I forgot two things!" Xiang Ming suddenly thought that he couldn't be such a fool, these things could have been done secretly, but there was no benefit in doing it, and it was not fashionable to do good deeds without leaving a name. Such a big accident, Xiang Ming doesn't want to do it in vain, 100 million can't run, anyway, this money is the money of the Three Gorges Power Generation Co., Ltd., even if they do it themselves, it will cost at least 200 million, the key is that they have no way now, right?
Earn some pocket money, that's a must, the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, this is true, but the greater the ability, the more money you make, isn't it? What's more, Xiang Ming didn't spend the money he earned himself, Xiang Ming really said that it was a pick, except for buying some clothes and shoes, basically didn't spend any money.
"Xiang Ming, what did you forget?" Yang Mengmeng asked!
"Hey hey good thing, good thing to earn some pocket money, otherwise where will your 500 million come from!"
"How to earn?" Yang Mengmeng wondered.
"Let's go find No. 1 and No. 2 now!" Xiang Ming pulled Yang Mengmeng and walked to the seats of No. 1 and No. 2!
"Grandpa No. 1, Grandpa No. 2, what are you talking about, grandfathers?"