"I want to go up the embankment to see the situation." Fan Heng looked at the scaffolding in the clouds and said to the entourage.

After hearing Fan Heng's request, both the entourage and the people in the reservoir construction headquarters were a little panicked. The water storage height here was more than 100 meters high, which made Fan Heng, a leader who was in his fifties and had no experience in going out to check the situation in person. No one would feel at ease.

"Vice Premier Fan, it's too dangerous here, so let's go up and see the situation." The entourage members said one after another.

The leaders of the reservoir construction command also dissuaded, "Deputy Premier Fan, although there are some cracks in the embankment, it is not a big problem. We are using filling materials for comprehensive repairs, so there is really no need to go up and check it."

Fan Heng shook his head and said, "I was entrusted by the Central Committee to investigate this matter. Since I have come, I don't go up and take a look, how can I feel at ease?"

As he said that, he ignored what others said, found a safety helmet and put it on, and accompanied by several bodyguards, he got on the scaffolding under construction, and then climbed to the place where cracks appeared on the embankment.

The water barrier surface of the dam is close to the middle of the river. The dam has been poured for more than 100 meters, about 80 meters high in the middle of the dam. A total of more than 20 scaffoldings called troughs by migrant workers have been built from top to bottom, with green protective mesh covers on the outside, like a "green centipede" array that is erected and clinged to the middle and lower part of the dam.

Just below these "green centipedes", a construction trench that was several hundred meters long and dozens of meters deep was dug along the base of the dam. Workers were busy working under the deep trench along the base of the dam.

Fan Heng and others climbed up several layers of the trough repair, and saw cracks from top to bottom on the dam wall, and the width of the slit could be inserted into the palm of an adult. After asking the construction workers, these were cracks that were being processed after the grouting was made. Because they needed to add various new materials, they used a portable cutting machine to scrape off the surface waterproof cement layer next to the slit opening with a hand-held cutting machine several centimeters thick and dozens of centimeters wide, and then cut the slit opening to facilitate construction.

At the top of the "Green Centipede", there is a huge middle-level flood discharge hole. A scaffolding platform walkway is built here, which is in the middle of the dam. You can see the patch joints chiseled downwards of the dam from the top along the dam body. Workers said that those have been processed.

A construction worker told Fan Heng that the reason for the cracks was that there was something wrong with the partition material between each pouring section and the construction section, and it was also possible that there was something wrong with the foundation below, but the specific reason still needs to be identified by experts.

The dam has been fully closed since its start of construction, and the outside world cannot know the quality of the dam. This time it was exposed, it was first spread by the Internet, but it is definitely difficult for ordinary people to distinguish the authenticity. It is just a rumor.

A deputy general manager of the Construction Corporation followed Fan Heng closely and explained to him, "This is just a shallow crack on the surface and will not affect the safety of the dam. Dam cracks are inevitable in all hydropower projects at home and abroad. The cracks in large volumes of concrete are difficult to avoid completely in dam pouring. As the high dam with the largest amount of concrete pouring in the world, cracks in the dam are difficult to avoid during continuous high-strength construction."

Another expert who rushed from Beijing earlier also said, "The pouring of large volumes of concrete is not like ordinary thin-walled structures. The casting temperature problem is quite complicated because it is very large and high, and the concrete needs to be hot. Although the project has taken comprehensive measures to cool low-temperature concrete in temperature control, the highest temperature of concrete is relatively high, and the lowest temperature of the dam is somewhat low when there is a change. After the temperature difference is caused, large volumes of concrete will inevitably have cracks. Therefore, we regard concrete cracks and other restorations in hydropower construction as the last process in concrete construction. It is just a process, and it is impossible to complete the dam without any defects."

Fan Heng nodded. Regarding this issue, he had consulted relevant water conservancy experts before coming, but because the entire project has almost included well-known water conservancy experts in the country, it is obviously difficult to hear any different opinions at this time.

In the feasibility demonstration of the project, the flood control team proposed that the project should achieve the expected flood control target, and the flood control storage capacity must be at least 25 billion cubic meters. The project proposal approved by the National People's Congress has a flood control storage capacity of only 22.1 billion cubic meters, which is less than the requirements of the flood control team.

Later, teachers and students of the Department of Water Conservancy of Tsinghua University recalculated the flood control storage capacity, and concluded that the flood control storage capacity of the reservoir was less than 20 billion cubic meters. Therefore, experts suggested that the flood control restricted water level be reduced from 145 meters above sea level to 135 meters above sea level to make up for the loss of flood control storage capacity caused by calculation errors. The measures taken in this way are to raise the threshold of the dam lock.

However, flood control benefits are an important role of the dam and the most important project goal of this project. If the flood control benefits cannot be achieved, it is tantamount to admitting that this project is a bit disappointing.

The dam lock needs to be raised, and most of the freight will be interrupted here, and it depends on mechanical dam overturning. The Prime Minister once said during his lifetime that if the construction of a dam in the Yangtze River causes the Yangtze River to interrupt the shipping, the dam will be blown up. Although this is unknown whether it is true or false, there is always such a saying. If this problem can be solved, it will be very confusing. After all, the dam has spent hundreds of billions of dollars, and the investment after completion is close to 200 billion. If such a large project cannot be satisfactory, it is indeed impossible to explain.

If we only consider the power issue, then building a few nuclear power plants is more than capable. The investment is definitely not that large, and the time, energy, manpower and material resources will definitely not be so much.

After all, after the dam was built, many of the original landscapes no longer existed, which is a very regrettable.

Fan Heng looked carefully on the embankment for a morning. It was the heat and the weather was particularly hot. The group felt it was so hot that they felt it was hard to stop it. Then they left the embankment. Before leaving, they took a lot of on-site inspection pictures on site as reference, and registered the repair methods and materials provided by the reservoir construction command center one by one, and took some samples back for future reference.

After returning to the hotel to stay, the surrounding local government officials rushed over to cooperate with the security guards who had just arrived to implement the security affairs. Then several important leaders met with Fan Heng and reported on their work.

Fan Heng was easy to talk and had a kind attitude at this time. When lunch came, he specially ordered the hotel to arrange a few banquets to entertain these people. Everyone thought that Vice Premier Fan was easy to get along with.

While having dinner and resting, Fan Heng felt a little heatstroke, so he asked Song Qing to take out the summer heat-retardation medicine tea prepared by Fan Wubing for him soaked in water.

"The disease-free preparation is very sufficient. All year round, I can always prepare all kinds of medicines that I need at home." Song Qing said to Fan Heng.

Fan Heng nodded and said, "Wujian knows that I am busy with work. I have prepared a lot of tonic medicines and arranged a wealth of recipes. Over the years, relying on his conditioning, my body has never had any major problems."

"This time, the matter is very troublesome." Song Qing couldn't help but mention the cracks in the embankment.

When Fan Heng heard this topic, he couldn't help but ponder for a moment, and then said with emotion, "The National People's Congress passed the resolution to build the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River. The news came. The people in the reservoir area were excited and set off firecrackers to celebrate. Now a few years have passed, and the people in the reservoir area have already flowed eastward with the Yangtze River. Many of them are afraid that they can't tell whether they should be happy or sad. They are old people in Fengjie Cement Factory.

In the first exciting explosion, the workers saw the factory they built in an instant and disappeared. When the peasant woman in Qu Yuan's hometown had to cut off the orange trees that were about to bear fruit, and when the immigrants in the ancient town Dachang waved goodbye to the Wen family compound that had lived in more than ten generations and went their separate ways, perhaps they had many unexpected thoughts. Not only these ordinary people, but also many of them were the decision makers, planners, advocates, advocates, advocates or unknown people, there were also many unexpected thoughts."

When Song Qing heard Fan Heng speak like this, she felt the helpless feeling in Fan Heng's words.

In the morning, the deputy general manager said frankly that over the years of construction, the general direction was generally good, but there were still some defects, accidents, and some accidents were still quite large. For example, the surface of the diversion bottom hole was uneven, and the under-floating one was processed for more than a year. Of course, for the entire project, there was a small amount in part, but it still had an impact on the progress of the project and had a greater impact on this year. Since it was early, the processing was basically timely. If it was to be released before the interception, there would be no time for the treatment.

When Fan Heng asked if the dam was damaged or bone-killing, or if it was possible to push it down and start over again, the chief engineer said that it is impossible to completely avoid cracks on the dam surface. The question is whether it will cause harm to the dam. The cracks that are now available have been identified by experts recently and are not hazardous. But if they are not handled properly, they may also develop into hazardous cracks. At the same time, he also admitted that in terms of prediction, he did not expect that their expansion will be so fast.

Another situation is not optimistic. It was only a few years after construction started that there was a news that the geological disasters in the reservoir area were serious, including more than 3,000 landslides, more than 1,000 collapses and deformations. According to official media, over the past decade, there have been more than 40 major geological disasters in this area, and there are still more than 1,500 landslides and landslides.

Among these slip bodies, nearly a thousand are located below the 135-meter water level line for the initial water storage in the project. According to a data from the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Commission, there are more than 1,300 areas with geological disaster hazards in the reservoir area, and more than 100 places that need to be dealt with.

After Fan Heng got the information, he first thought of a problem. The original project decision makers must have not known these situations, otherwise it would be impossible to make such a decision.

And it also seems strange that this landslide, collapse and earthquake seem to be deliberately unable to get along with people. A landslide occurred in the old county of Yunyang, Wulong, and a landslide occurred in the Ziguixing Mountain earthquake. A few days later, the Badong New City was built on the old landslide and had to be rebuilt in another place. A few days later, a huge landslide appeared in the new county of Yunyang, threatening the safety of tens of thousands of people. A few days later, Zigui collapsed, and this time it really killed people.

"Although the idea is good, the southwest terrain is complex and there are many problems. It is obviously not enough to just think about it. The previous preparations were obviously very sufficient, but now it seems that there are still many problems. It can only be said that with the development of the times, our understanding of the environment has improved again." Fan Heng said with some ease.

If you just watched from the side, Fan Heng would not have felt so much emotion, but when you were in the scene, you felt that everything was going through, and how difficult it was to do something.

It is not that many people on this construction site are not working diligently, nor that these technicians are just cutting corners and neglecting their duties, nor that the funds for the entire construction operation have been emptied, but that it is indeed difficult to build a perfect dam under the current conditions.

Some problems that arise in the project are not a problem, and there is no perfect thing, but if there is a problem, you need to find a way to solve it instead of blindly hiding it.

This dam can be said to have carried the wishes of the people of the entire Yangtze River small and medium-sized provinces over the years. Everyone hopes not to suffer from the Yangtze River floods in the future. However, from the perspective of Fan Heng, it is not realistic to announce that this purpose has been achieved at this time.

The senior management is not very optimistic about this issue, so more than 6 billion have been allocated this year to be used for the construction and restoration of embankments in provinces along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, which is enough to illustrate the problem.

"In any case, our goal has been achieved. Now when we return to the capital, no one can say that we have not fulfilled our responsibilities. What is the future statement? The photos we took and the specimens we brought back are enough to explain the problem." Song Qing said comforting her when she saw that Fan Heng was in a bad mood.

Fan Heng smiled, and then said, "I suddenly remembered what Wubing said to me. Life is like a cup of tea. It won't be bitter for a lifetime, but it will always be bitter for a while. There is always a gap between ideals and reality. Fortunately, there is still a gap. Otherwise, who would still care about ideals?"

Speaking of Fan Wubing, Song Qing couldn't help but smile, "He said a lot. Be grateful to those who hurt you because he has tempered your will; be grateful to those who deceive you because he has enhanced your wisdom; be grateful to those who slander you because he has tempered your personality; be grateful to those who whip you because he has inspired your fighting spirit; be grateful to those who abandon you because he has taught you to be independent; be grateful to those who stumble you because he has strengthened your legs; be grateful to those who rebuke you because he has reminded you about your shortcomings."
Chapter completed!