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YICHANG (CHINA): The Three Gorges Project is ready to regulate flooding this summer but 28,000 residents still need to be moved from near the reservoir before it is ready to deal with once-in-100-year floods, say Chinese experts. The project will help regulate once-in-20-year floods on the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze starting this year, according to Chen Lei, a senior engineer with the Surveys and Designs institute of the Yangtze River Water Resources Committee. Cao Guangjing, deputy general manager of China Three Gorges Project Corporation, said when a flood hits the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze, the water level behind the dam will be allowed to rise. To be able to store that much water some 300,000 people will have to be relocated to make room for the expanded reservoir. The Three Gorges Dam Project, isn't scheduled to become fully operational until 2008. It is designed to minimise damage caused by floods that occur only once every 100 years. — Xinhua

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