Ludila dam

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Ludila
Location: Yunnan Province , PR China Tributaries: Jinsha Jiang Drain: Jinsha Jiang Major cities nearby: Lijiang
China
Coordinates	26 ° 12 '6 "  N , 100 ° 48' 58"  E Coordinates: 26 ° 12 '6 "  N , 100 ° 48' 58"  E
Data on the structure
Lock type:	Gravity dam
Construction time:	2007–2015 (planned)
Height of the barrier structure :	120 m
Power plant output:	2 160  MW
Operator:	Huadian Power
Data on the reservoir
Storage space	1718 million m³

The Ludila Dam is a gravity dam that is currently under construction on the Jinsha Jiang (Chinese name for the upper reaches of the Yangtze River ) near Lijiang in the Yunnan Province of China.

Construction work began in 2007. It was interrupted by the Ministry of the Environment in June 2009 because the dam had been built without an environmental report and without a permit.

About 16,900 people had to be resettled for the construction of the dam.

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In June 2013, a contactor was torn from its anchorages. The reports on the current state of the hydropower plant differ. While operating company Yunnan Jinsha River Hydropower Co announced that the problems had been resolved and the power plant would run normally, a journalist who was on site claimed that the problems persist. In addition, the dam wall has a hole (or a crack) and the operators are still undecided how the repair should best be carried out.

See also

• List of hydropower plants in China
• List of dams in China

Web links

Commons : Ludila Dam  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ministry Suspends Key Projects, China.org, June 12, 2009, accessed June 19, 2012 (English)
2. ↑ Jinsha River Dams, International Rivers, accessed June 19, 2012.
3. ↑ Patrick Scally, Cissy Yu: Yunnan dam structurally unsound, repairs in limbo. GoKunming, May 28, 2014, accessed on September 1, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Li Jing, Alice Yan: Crippled HK $ 27 billion Jinsha River hydro plant badly built, says official. South China Morning Post, May 28, 2014, accessed September 1, 2014 .