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The Yangtze River Dam Project
By the time the project is completed in 2009, water levels will be raised by 175 meters or 575 feet and over one million people in 116 towns will have been resettled.
Benefits will be mainly in
![]() The project is composed of:
The navigation structures consist of the permanent Ship Locks and a Shiplift, sort of an elevator for boats 3,000 tons or less. The Ship Locks consist of five steps and go both ways. We entered the locks at the end of the second day of our cruise. The kids thought it was so cool, like riding on Starship Enterprise... how the water level dropped, the opening of the gates and passing to the next chamber... The next day we visited the Three Gorges Dam project. From the observation platforms, you get a nice view of the entire complex: the ship elevator, power plant and locks.
Also, there is a model that shows the entire thing and it's perfect to explain the kids how our boat "climbed down the stairs" to get to the other side. This completed our Yangtze River Cruise. From the Dam we drove to Yichang where we spent the rest of the time until our flight to Shanghai that afternoon. ...more Yangtze River pictures You can follow the course of the cruise in this Map of the Yangtze River as we started downstream from Chongqing to Yichang. Return from Yangtze River Dam to Yangtze River
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