How the Three Gorges Dam Handles Extreme Floods

I wanted to do a follow up on the Three Gorges Dam video I made earlier. While researching the video, I came across speculation on the possibility of the dam collapsing.
I find this whole thing to be a bit weird as the dam has been around for a while. I know the Chinese government does not have the best reputation for truth-telling, but we don’t really need to take their words at face value to recognize that the dam is doing fine right now. There is a lot of publicly available data on how it works, the way it is built, and prior “extreme” situations that the dam has survived.
In this video, I want to dive deeper in my throwaway comment about the Three Gorges Dam and how it manages extreme flood risks in a new age of climate change.

[@shazmosushi]

Another well researched and informative video. Here's a comment for the KZbin algorithm.

[@Asianometry]

I find myself caught up in a dam frenzy. So many dam ideas.

[@shazmosushi]

@@Asianometry haha

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

@@Asianometry Booo! Yeecchhh! Disgusting! Horrible! Um, other than that, rather good work. Well done and thank you.

[@pblaschke]

Excellent video. Thanks for the research and clear explaination.

[@jaytee4482]

3 Gorgeous Dam

[@zimuli1098]

The mother river - yellow river is also insanely hard handed when it comes to slapping her kids.

[@hobog]

0:59 that dam is worth between 5 and 6 World Trade Center subway stations

[@jackyeh7512]

Best impartial video about TGD. Thanks.

[@Ezekiel903]

he should made a video today, downstream and upstream they have high floods!!! and all livecam are blocked!!! why, something to hide?

[@sumyamchi]

Good summary but should point out a slight mistake at the end where it claims the dam itself would cause the loss of natural levee buildup through sedimentation. Sedimentation along riverbanks actually increases flood risk by raising the riverbed. This is how deltas are built up and also how rivers change their course over time. What dams do sometimes cause is increased erosion down river from the dam by reducing sediment in river water, thus increasing the sediment carrying capacity of the water. This can over time potentially erode badly constructed levees, like packed earth levees. Otherwise, the impact is negligible.

[@okman9684]

DAMN!

[@seokjin3000]

Can you talk about the new Baiheitan Dam, for which AI was used to build it in just 4 years? Maybe the proposed Yarlung-Tsangpo superdam in the same video?

[@hobog]

8:14 I put little stake in Google maps' depiction of China for anything more accurate than 1km

[@Asianometry]

Just a classic case of someone looking too seriously at something. To me it’s just a basic image distortion from stitching together different pics.

[@laopang91362]

The dam stayed firm .. and stood the test of ultimate floods.

[@miyatenmeiritsu1810]

But the test never ends, and the ultimate flood may had yet to come. Hopefully the dam was not felled by the flood it was supposed to control.

[@davidholder3207]

Surprised you never claimed that desertification wasn't caused by "Climate Change".

[@R.U.1.2.]

Has the TGD collapsed yet? You came across the speculation on the possibility of the dam collapsing...gosh, there's something you don't see every day, more like every 12 minutes would be more accurate.

[@pauljmeyer1]

This gives a better idea of the ability of the TGD to discharge floodwater near its breeching level, however, some cracking gives concern.

[@garyvee6023]

The trouble with all this is that we know there was a lot of cost cutting/corruption when the dam was built, your diagnosis is fine "if" it was built as was specified..., the trouble is we know from lots of other inferstructure failures in China that this probably didn't happen.

[@Asianometry]

I’d love to do a video on the corruption and cost cutting of the dam construction. Got any sources?

[@hobog]

I feel like it isn't worth cutting corners here, if there are so many CCP members' jurisdictions downstream

[@alvinol9003]

The Chinese take great pride of the 3 gorges dam. Would you cut corners when u know your family gonna live downstream.

[@Ezekiel903]

this dam has a lot of problem, that's why they have shut down the 4 live stream camera!! all the garbage in the sea, they flooded entire city's, the water is more dirty then ever before and the satellite picture shows the dam is not more stable!! even the CCP admitted it, but they say it is still in the parameter, but no one knows what they mean with it!! Uber region has no more fish, this is a real propaganda video!

[@AFlyingCookieLOL]

@@Ezekiel903 Sources you trash? Oh wait - trash only has western propaganda and racism