Three Gorges garbage collected

Workers finished removing garbage floating in the Three Gorges Dam in central China’s Hubei province this week. The cleanup was essential to ensure the efficient operation of the dam’s generators after engineers recently raised the dam’s water level.
The water level in the dam in Zigui County – the world’s largest water-control and hydropower project – hit 175 meters, the designed maximum, on October 26.
During the raising of the dam’s water level, large amounts of garbage appeared at the front of the dam, threatening the functioning of the hydropower turbo-generators.
Workers salvaged more than 3,800 tons of garbage, CRI English.com reported.
China launched the Three Gorges Project in 1993 with a budget equivalent to US$22.5 billion.
The dam is a multi-functional water control system consisting of a dam, a five-tier ship lock and 26 hydropower turbo-generators.
The 185-meter-deep reservoir was built on the upper middle-reaches of the Yangtze, China’s longest river.