Talk:Gezhouba Dam

One of the largest locks in the World?

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"The navigation lock No. 2 on the third channel was, when built, one of the largest in the world."

At 280 meters it is slightly longer than a Seawaymax lock. But its depth, at five metres, is just 60% that of the St Lawrence Seaway. The largest vessel to traverse the Seaway was 28,000 tons. There are over a dozen locks on the Seaway. The Panama Canal, Manchester Ship Canal and the Kiel Canal also have larger capacity locks. -- Geo Swan 06:46, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

• The North Sea Canal has a lock 400 x 50 x 15 meters. Another instance of a lock larger than the Chinese lock. The assertion that it is one of the largest in the world should be removed or amended. -- Geo Swan 18:08, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

gezhou dam

shouldn't it be "gezhou dam" as 'ba' means dam in chinese  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.180.26.63 (talk) 15:14, 28 February 2009 (UTC) 

Technically, yes. I did some translation for Chinese cartographers in Beijing, and official policy is to transliterate the final syllable of a place name that identifies the nature of a landmark only if the full name is only two syllables long (e. g. Taishan is "Taishan Mountain" in English, not just "Tai Mountain"), but to translate it otherwise (e. g. "Cangyanshan" is "Mount Cangyan"). 131.171.50.15 (talk) 17:48, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

1580m³?

"The reservoir has a total volume of 1,580 m3 (55,797 cu ft)." is obviously wrong, because that's the volume of a large swimming pool, not the volume of a 3,11GW hydroplan... --Pcmadman (talk) 09:08, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. It should be 1.58 km3. It is fixed now. Beagel (talk) 09:30, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

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