'Throat' tunnel completed
Source: Xinhua |
January 9, 2012, Monday
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A TUNNEL beneath the Yellow River, China's second longest, has been completed for the eastern route of the country's giant south-north water diversion project.
Water diverted from the Yangtze, China's largest river, along the eastern route will flow through the tunnel to the parched northern provinces of Shandong and Hebei as well as Tianjin Municipality, the Shandong Provincial Construction Management Bureau of South-to-North Water Diversion Project said yesterday.
Dubbed the "throat" of the eastern route, the 585-meter-long tunnel, 9 meters in diameter and up to 70 meters deep, will divert 442 million cubic meters of water annually.
The eastern route cost 613 million yuan (US$97.2 million) and work lasted four years.
The south-north water diversion project was first conceived by Mao Zedong in 1952 and the State Council approved it in 2002.
The project, with an estimated total cost of 500 billion yuan, has aroused global concerns over land use, possible regional climate changes, environmental damage, impact on agriculture and human suffering through relocations.
The project plans to divert 44.8 billion cubic meters of water annually to north China by 2050. The 1,467-km-long eastern route began in 2002 and is expected to supply water by 2013.
Water diverted from the Yangtze, China's largest river, along the eastern route will flow through the tunnel to the parched northern provinces of Shandong and Hebei as well as Tianjin Municipality, the Shandong Provincial Construction Management Bureau of South-to-North Water Diversion Project said yesterday.
Dubbed the "throat" of the eastern route, the 585-meter-long tunnel, 9 meters in diameter and up to 70 meters deep, will divert 442 million cubic meters of water annually.
The eastern route cost 613 million yuan (US$97.2 million) and work lasted four years.
The south-north water diversion project was first conceived by Mao Zedong in 1952 and the State Council approved it in 2002.
The project, with an estimated total cost of 500 billion yuan, has aroused global concerns over land use, possible regional climate changes, environmental damage, impact on agriculture and human suffering through relocations.
The project plans to divert 44.8 billion cubic meters of water annually to north China by 2050. The 1,467-km-long eastern route began in 2002 and is expected to supply water by 2013.
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