Pubugou dam

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Pubugou dam
Dam construction site
Dam construction site
Location: Hanyuan County , Sichuan , People's Republic of China
Tributaries: Dadu He
Drain: Dadu He
Pubugou Dam (China)
Pubugou dam
Coordinates 29 ° 12 '32 "  N , 102 ° 50' 17"  E Coordinates: 29 ° 12 '32 "  N , 102 ° 50' 17"  E
Data on the structure
Construction time: 2004-2010
Height of the barrier structure : 186 m
Building volume: 24.00 million m³
Power plant output: 3 300  MW
Data on the reservoir
Storage space 5177 million m³

The Pubugou Dam ( Chinese  瀑布 溝 大壩 , Pinyin Pùbùgōu Dàbà ) is a large dam on the Dadu He River , a tributary of the Yangtze River , in the Hanyuan district of the Chinese province of Sichuan in southwest China. The barrier structure is a rock embankment dam . The total generator capacity of the hydropower plant is 3,300 to 3,600 MW.

Construction began on March 30, 2004. In the same year, the construction site was overrun by 50-100,000 demonstrators, which delayed construction by a year. The reason for the protests were the resettlements that will be necessary due to the planned flooding. About 3000 hectares of arable land were flooded, one tenth of the arable land in Hanyuan. 70,000 to 100,000 people had to be relocated. Chen Tao, one of the protesters, was executed in 2006.

The dam closed the river on November 22, 2005, the damming started in 2009 and by the end of the year a water level of 790 m above sea level had been reached.

The first generator was put into operation in December 2009. By the end of 2010, five more generators with an output of 600 MW each had been put into operation.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ news.bbc.co.uk: China 'executes dam protester' , as of December 6, 2006, accessed on October 16, 2011
  2. ↑ a b chidi.com.cn: Pubugou hydropower station , June 8, 2010, accessed October 5, 2011
  3. ↑ libcom.org: Violence erupts at Chinese dam eviction , April 27, 2010, accessed October 5, 2011
  4. ↑ Rachel Beitarie: Burst of New Dams in Southwest China Produces Power and Public Ire , in Circle of Blue WaterNews March 22, 2011, accessed October 16, 2011

Web links

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