Yangtze River Bank Caves In
Sunday, December 2, 2007 15:22Just saw this come off my Reuters RSS Stretch of China’s Yangtze river caves in, where it looks like a few hundred meters of the shore decided to decouple itself and move a few warehouses into the water. Cranes too.
Xinhua cited a local official as saying the collapse could have been caused by a vortex of water. It said others believed construction at a nearby shipyard might have loosened the foundations of a dyke and caused the collapse
Recently a hot topic of debate due to the controversy surrounding the landslides near the three gorges damn, there has also been increased dredging activity going on as well.
For sure China’s most important river, the Yangtze has a lot of potential to become the centerpiece of harmonious society… but with a number of landslides, silt build ups, bridges, and seasonal water level changes… it is clear that operators have a number of things to worry about before they can think of increasing container traffic.
Rich says:
December 6th, 2007 at 8:19 am
More on the Yangtze’s problems were highlighted in the Xinhua article Three Gorges Dam unleashes water to ensure shipping
According to the article: