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Reservoir Damming China's Largest Urban Water Supply Project Completed
The damming of the Yunlong Reservoir on the Zhangjiu River, a tributary to the Jinsha River, the upper section of China's longest river, the Yangtze, was completed Sunday successfully.
The reservoir will double the drinking water supply to Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province.
Construction of the Yunlong Reservoir started at the end of 1999. The project is expected to cost a total of 3.9 billion yuan upon completion in 2005, when it will expand the daily water supply to Kunming from the current 700,000 tons to 1.4 million tons.
Built with a holding capacity of 442 million cubic meters, the Yunlong Reservoir is designed to pipe 245 million cubic meters of water to Kunming annually.
By 2004, the dam of the reservoir will be 77 meters high, the record dam height in Asia.
He Youde, vice-mayor of Kunming and director of the water-construction project, said that earthwork for a tap-water plant for purifying the reservoir water before it is piped to Kunming has been half completed, and relocation of some 10,000 people near the dam area will be finished by March next year.
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