Special report: Reconstruction After Earthquake
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The major project of a sluice -- an
irregular cube designed to discharge flooded water -- from the Tangjiashan
Lake is completed at quake-induced Tangjiashan Lake in southwest China's
Sichuan Province, May 31, 2008. The first group of 15 earthquake relief
workers handling the Tangjiashan quake-formed lake in China's Sichuan
Province boarded a helicopter at 8:35 a.m. Saturday and were evacuated
from the dam site.(Xinhua Photo)
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Soldiers evacuated as plans to drain
quake-formed lake are completed
MIANYANG, Sichuan, May 31 (Xinhua) -- The diversion
project to drain a dangerous lake in China's quake-hit Sichuan was completed at
10 p.m. on Saturday, a water resources official said.
By 10 p.m. Saturday, about 135,500 cubic meters of
mud and rocks have been removed from the Tangjiashan quake-formed lake, leaving
a 475-meter-long channel up to 10 meters wide on the giant blockage, said Liu
Ning, chief engineer of the Ministry of Water Resources and deputy director of
the diversion project. Full story
Nearly 200,000 people evacuated to
safe ground as planned in SW China
MIANYANG, Sichuan, May 31 (Xinhua) -- A total of 197,477
people were evacuated to safe ground as of 8 a.m. Saturday in line with an
emergency plan, an official with the quake relief headquarters of Mianyang City
in southwest China said.
The plan was drawn up for the contingency of one third of
the volume of quake-formed Tangjiashan lake burst out. Full story
Soldiers work non-stop to drain "quake
lake" as thousands prepare to evacuate
TANGJIASHAN, Sichuan, May 29 (Xinhua) -- More than 600
rescuers worked through heavy rain on Thursday to dig a diversion channel on one
of the most dangerous lakes in China's quake-hit Sichuan Province. Full story
Mass evacuation underway for fear of
"quake lake" burst
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An aerial photo taken on May 28, 2008
shows a landslide near the Tangjiashan earthquake-induced lake near
Beichuan County in southwest China's Sichuan Province.(Xinhua/Li
Gang)
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MIANYANG, Sichuan, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Up to 1.3 million
people in southwest China's Sichuan Province have been ordered to evacuate to
higher grounds for fear of a major "quake lake" burst as a result of flooding
and strong aftershocks.
Tan Li, Party Secretary of Mianyang City and chief of
Mianyang City Quake Control and Relief Headquarters, on Friday renewed an order
that 1.3 million people living downstream from Tangjiashan, a swelling
quake-induced lake, must evacuate to higher grounds demarcated by government
departments. Full story
China allocates 200 mln yuan to
relieve "quake lake" threat
BEIJING, May 28 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Finance
said Wednesday that the government allocated 200 million yuan (28.6 million U.S.
dollars) from the central budget for Sichuan Province to deal with the swelling
lakes formed by this month's devastating earthquake.
Many such lakes are threatening to burst and flood
downstream areas. Full story
