The dam on the river Bureya in the Khabarovsk territory, formed in after the collapse of the soil, may not be able to eliminate. This opinion was expressed by the Deputy Director of the Institute of water and environmental problems of the far Eastern branch of RAS Alexey Makhinov after inspecting the scene.
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"If there such large amount of soil - about 3-4 million tons fell off, then neither the bulldozer, nor any other equipment will be able to cope" - TASS cites words of Makhinov.
As the scientist emphasizes, the dam does not need to be eliminated as on it the huge amount of time, forces and money will be required. He expressed confidence that the jam [the natural dam] will just washed away over time..." [https://iz.ru/827997/2018-12-26/ekspert-schel-nevozmozhnym-ustranenie-zatora-na-reke-bureia-pod-khabarovskom]
2) Assessments of the situation. Statements on a subject about intermediate results.
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TV show for patriots. Evgeny Simonov - about the Bureya hydroelectric power station
10 February, 2019
Evgeny Simonov
... It is pleasant to be the prophet. About events on the Bureya River corked with a collapse I wrote in December ...
So far it was succeeded to do with use of 260 tons of TNT in a huge blockage the channel 30-60 meters wide on which the water which is saved up behind a blockage directed down...
The RusHydro company hung out on the website an explanation in the spirit of "and to us all the same, there will be enough water till spring" - and became silent ...
And for the rest the situation on Bureya is not unique. A similar catastrophe recently survived the valley of the Jinsha River (the upper course of the Yangtze) in China, where rocky landslides twice blocked the main channel, in October and November...
Each collapse caused formation of "the barrier lake", the largest of which reached 56 meters in depth and volume more than a half of cubic kilometer.
The lake flooded two villages and a small town Bolo [город Боло], and ... had to evacuate in the 400 temporary camps to 25 thousand local residents.
At break of a crossing point [the natural dam] and of the release of waters demolished three bridges and 1000 houses, and in order to avoid severe losses it was necessary to dismantle the equipment on three hydroelectric power stations which are under construction below.
In China rescuers, police and special engineering groups of the hydroenergy companies participated in operation on prevention of accident ... It is their equipment and people paved ways, created new points of expeditious monitoring, dismantled and mounted engineering constructions and exhibited teams of excavators-kamikaze, who were raking unsteady rocky blockages to pave the way for distraught water before it accumulates of a too much own volume.
The site of each campaign has its own history of struggle with the elements and its own list of heroes...
... Two districts in two regions of the Russian Federation are standing on their ears in a condition of emergency situation...
... Due to the crisis of the Bureyskaya HPP it is necessary to reduce water consumption from 800 to 500 cubic meters per second. "RusHydro" does not advertise all these" working moments". "RusHydro" does not answer the question whether it will have to rebuild the work of the Bureya cascade in the long term in connection with the narrow neck that arose in the middle of the reservoir...
... The deputy director of Institute of water and environmental problems of the Far East office of RAS, the doctor of geographical sciences Alexey Makhinov in the interview to the Amur.info agency intelligibly explained that, despite successful actions of engineering troops, the danger of emergency situations remains... ...there is a danger of a one-time breakthrough of a large accumulated mass of water through the blockage.
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Evgeny Simonov-ecologist, international coordinator of the Rivers without Borders Coalition"
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Comment.
January 15, 2019 was posted on the Internet material (article) by Eugene Simonov "Abrupt coasts. Evgeny Simonov - about a landslide at the Bureya hydroelectric power station" [https://www.svoboda.org/a/29708921.html]. The article, published on 15 January 2019, produced me personally ambivalent impression.
On the one hand, the sequence of statement of the information elements and the list of semantic accents (in part of the article), at someone could create feeling that the author rethought certain information and published the rethought material. Whether he specified the author of the read material (if he really read it (information, material))? In any case, in his article we meet surnames of Makhinov and the Petly [Петли]. Nobody, of course, forbids to read the materials prepared by other people (they for what "strain"?), but in traditions of respectable people - the indication of names of authors of the used materials. At least, we are pleased to assume that in the UK it is customary to do so.
On the other hand, the article of January 15, 2019 contains undoubtedly useful information about the existence of a surplus of energy capacities both in the far East of Russia and in the Heilongjiang province of China. If we accept the thesis of the existence of a surplus for the true, then the existing activity on the development of the energy economy in the Far East looks in a completely unusual (or vice versa, in the "traditional") light...
In the material (article) dated on February 10, 2019 ("A TV show for patriots. Evgeny Simonov - about the Bureya hydroelectric power station"), the subject changed a little.
However, the sequence of statement of information elements and the list of semantic accents (in part of the new work), at someone could create feeling that the author rethought certain information and published the rethought material. Naturally, this is only a feeling. Can't there be (random) coincidences? Whether he specified the author of the read material (if he really read it (information, material))? In any case, in article of February 10, 2019 we meet surnames of Makhinov and Petly [Петли] again.
How has the theme changed?
If on January 15, 2019 the effective activity of military engineers and other military personnel only began, and could not serve as a subject of "attention", then on February 10, 2019 the man-made channel became the reality.
It is this effective activity of military engineers and other military personnel, the results of this activity attracted the attention of the respected Yevgeny Simonov.
What it is possible to tell about reaction of dear author to the effective activity?
Some readers may like to hear the words "don't be too much proud!" ["do not raise your nose too highly!"]. "In China the problem was not less difficult! Chinese solved the problem not less effectively".
There is, nevertheless, the phrase from Evgeny Simonova's article "about China", which is of particular interest: "At break of a crossing point [the natural dam] and of the release of waters demolished three bridges and 1000 houses ..."
Yes ... A various events happen ... A natural disaster it's a natural disaster...
Except the information on work of the Chinese experts in article of February 10, 2019 the such terms (expressions, phrases, word combinations) were used as, for example is : "turmoil", "stand on ears", "the thunderclap burst (rolled)", "bravura", "people's military drama" ...
Some readers may like to hear the words: "don't be too much proud!" ["do not raise your nose too highly!"].
What can I say about this? Will not deny the rights to freedom of thought and to freedom of speech. Let's add that there are concepts "author's conscientiousness" and "rules of good taste", "the ability to hold (to keep yourself) with dignity" ...
We can note also a certain objectivity of the author of article of February 10, 2019:: "... on a 30-degree frost it is necessary to put hundreds of charges of "clever explosive", to stretch to it kilometers of wires, to blow up, clear away the site from fragments ... ... It was succeeded to do in the huge blockage the channel 30-60 meters wide along which the water, which was saved up behind the blockage, was directed down... "
A various events happen ... a natural disaster it's a natural disaster... But, nevertheless, at the moment of the beginning of the movement of water along the created man-made channel a powerful wave, it seems, did not arise.
February 10, 2019 19:15
Translation from Russian into English: February 11, 2019 00:36.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Рассказ об интересе к Бурейской теме вечером 10 февраля 2019 г.".