Healing the Yangtze River "sore throat"

A diversion dam Turtle Island from the middle of the river to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River extends 3,000 meters, five T-shaped auxiliary dam dam on the Yangtze River water will be slowly rolling guide to the turtle Island right branching, smooth flow of the river between ships.
Yesterday, the reporter monitor the kiln in the Yangtze River waterway to see past the dry season waterway navigation-remediation monitoring of the kiln has achieved initial progress.  "Yangtze River, and danger in the Jingjiang River." Kiln is located in Yangtze River waterway under the supervision of Jingjiang River, Left Bank, Jianli County, for the province, the right bank of Huarong County, Hunan total length of 25 kilometers.  Historically, the kiln supervisor River Inlet Road, instability, have occurred many times the main branch of bifurcated conversion, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, one of the main navigation-mount, known as Yangtze River, "the throat," said.

"This is the dry season across the board over the years, the Yangtze River waterway to maintain a top priority." Jianli Fairway Management Branch, Gu Hua, told reporters that the "bottleneck" Starting this year has been broken, kiln monitoring river channel a renovation project in the River Turtle Island beach head heart heart of the dam built by man to guide water flow, improve the channel conditions for the dry season.

After an hour of sailing, the reporter take the channel to maintain the boat arrived in Turtle Island. The reporter saw through the mist, slightly more than 3000 meters above the surface of the dam, lying still middle of the river will flow into two branches north and south. Although the renovation project has not yet completed, but more recently the reach of the channel-scale have been maintained at 3.6 m depth, well above the 3.0 meters of the month to maintain standards, the best year ever.

Yangtze River Waterway Project Construction Command commander Song-Bai Peng said: "30 years east of the river, 40 years Hexi, using these words to describe the most appropriate channel kiln supervisor. Since 1945, the kiln supervisor frequent changes in the main channel of the watercourse, the final stable In the South Branch. "