Reservoir dams around the epicenter of Monday's killing earthquake were impacted and damaged, and troops and professionals scrambled Wednesday to plug cracks and open sluices to prevent flooding of already devastated communities.
The Ministry of Water Resources has urged for protection of the Zipingpu
reservoir, saying Dujiangyan would be "swamped" if major problems emerged at the
dam. The ministry had set up an emergency command center at the dam "to
discharge the reservoir's rising waters and guarantee that the damage posed no
threat to residents in Dujiangyan and the neighboring Chengdu Plain," which is
densely populat
Scores of rivers snake through mountainous Tibetan plateau before descending
into the fertile Sichuan basin where they provide critical irrigation. Most have
dams along them to help regulate seasonal floods and to provide much needed
power.
Satellite Image shows the Zipingpu Dam, upriver from the town of Dujiangyan,
Sichuan, China.
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