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Limpid Water Seen at Entrance to Three Gorges

With the Three Gorges reservoir began storing water at early Sunday, the Yangtze River water at Kuimen, the entrance to the Three Gorges, has become clearer than ever before.


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With the Three Gorges reservoir began storing water at early Sunday, the Yangtze River water at Kuimen, the entrance to the Three Gorges, has become clearer than ever before.

The water level at Kuimen rose to between 105 and 110 meters by10:00 a.m. Sunday, according to the navigation route department of Fengjie County of Chongqing Municipality.

The water level of the reservoir, on the upper reaches of the Yangtze, the longest river in China, will reach an altitude of 135meters by June 15.

Initial storage of water was actually conducted for the past days in preparation for the formal operation Sunday. Many people living nearby came to see the water level rising in the reservoir.

"In my life of more than 80 years, I've never seen such limpid river water in summer," said Yang Huachun, who moved into a new county town of Fengjie one month ago from his rural home to make way for the Three Gorges Project.

Like Yang, more than 720,000 local residents have moved to new homes. Experts estimate that the whole project will involve the relocation of over one million people in all. The central and local authorities have offered plenty of financial aid for their resettlement.

Upon completion in 2009, the Three Gorges Project is expected to play an important role in flood control, power generation, water diversion, environmental protection and navigation.

Due to water storage, the Yangtze now runs slower at Kuimen section and it is easier for ships to anchor at the river bank, said Sun Kaiwu, director of the resettlement bureau of Fengjie County, who also came to see the water level rising in the reservoir.

The river runs slower and so the silt could deposit at the bottom of the Yangtze, and that is why the water become limpid, Sun said.

Navigation on the Yangtze is planed to resume on June 16 after 67 days of suspension.


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