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High alert as lake drainage picks up pace

MIANYANG (SICHUAN): The water level of the Tangjiashan quake lake in Sichuan continued to rise on Sunday despite the operation of a drainage channel since Saturday morning.

“The drainage plus natural leakage of the lake is about 25 cubic meters per second, while the inflow is 4.6 times more than that, but its impact on the lake dam is not obvious,” said Zhang Ting, head of the Sichuan Provincial Hydro-Meteorological Bureau.

Mr. Zhang said rainfall was not expected on Monday, which would be good for the quake relief work. Military engineers have fired missiles to blast boulders in the channel to accelerate drainage.

The water flow through the sluice channel has widened from less than five meters to eight metres. — Xinhua

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