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Gezhouba Water Control Project
Gezhouba Water Control Project mainly consists of three ship locks, two power stations ,the 27 gates of the spillway, the 6 gates of the scouring sluices on the Third River, the 9 gates of the scouring sluices on the Great River, the no flowing Dam on both banks ,Slurry-preventing bank, and so on. The dam is 2606 meters long and 70 meters high. The highest bank is 53.8 meters high. The design water level is 66 meters. It can control an drainage area of 1000 thousand square kilometers and hold water of 1.58 billion cubic meters. The two power stations have a total capacity of 2.715 million kw and an annual electricity output of 15.7 billion kwh. Lock 1 and Lock 2 of the same size permit the passage of ships of 10 thousand tons or large passenger-cargo vessels at a time and is one of the greatest locks in the world.
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Gezhouba Water Control Project