Gezhouba Dam
Template:Redirect Template:Infobox dam Template:Infobox Chinese The Gezhouba Dam or Gezhouba Water Control Project (Template:Zh) on the Yangtze River is located in the western suburbs of Yichang, in central China's Hubei province. One of the largest run-of-the-river dams,<ref>Template:Citation</ref> it sits several kilometers upstream from downtown Yichang, just downstream of the fall of the Huangbo River into the Yangtze. Construction started on December 30, 1970 and ended on December 11, 1988. The dam has a total installed electricity generation capacity of Template:Nowrap.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
After rushing out of Nanjin Pass (南津关, "South Ford Pass"), the Yangtze River slows down and widens from Template:Convert to about Template:Convert at the dam site. Two small islands, Gezhouba and Xiba, divided the river into three channels. There, the Gezhouba Project was built.
The facility boasts a generating capacity of Template:Nowrap along with three ship locks, and two power stations that generate Template:Nowrap of electricity annually. It has 27 gates of spillway, and a non-flowing Dam on both banks. The dam is Template:Convert long with a maximum height of Template:Convert. The reservoir has a total volume of Template:Convert.
The navigation lock Template:Nowrap on the third channel was, when built, among the 100 largest in the world. The lock chamber is Template:Convert long and Template:Convert wide, with a minimum draft of Template:Convert at the sill. It provides passage for 10,000 ton ships.
The construction of the Gezhouba Dam, and others on the Yangtze, is considered by scientists to be one of the main causes of the decline and extinction of the Chinese paddlefish.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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