Simulation Game: Crisis Management-Chapter 349 - 172: Dam Crisis

At the moment he saw the reservoir’s water volume, Gu Ji couldn’t help but curse.

The official rated total water storage of the Farakka Dam is 9.5 billion cubic meters, but the millimeter-wave water level monitor in front of him shows the actual capacity has exceeded 10.3 billion cubic meters, nearly 10% over the limit, indicating a severe overcapacity.

All 12 gates of the dam are fully opened, with an average flow rate of 1,243 cubic meters per second, while the precipitation detected by the rainwater monitoring system is increasing at 1,365 cubic meters per second.

In other words, even if the tropical storm does not bring any more rain, the dam cannot self-release the floodwaters.

This is the real reason Gu Ji decided to blow up the dam!

"Monitoring technician! Where are the values for dam structure monitoring, seepage monitoring, and seepage pressure monitoring?"

"I, I am the technician."

Gu Ji shouted twice in the control room before a middle-aged man in a blue uniform with dark skin jogged over.

Perhaps aware of the reservoir’s problem, he wiped the sweat off his forehead in a fluster. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

"Reporting to the leadership, the Farakka Dam was built too early and completed in 1971, so no pressure pipes were installed during its construction. We can only use hydrology methods, making simplified assumptions under seepage conditions for basic calculations and analysis."

"That means, you can’t accurately deduce the infiltration line of the dam?"

Faced with Gu Ji’s questioning, the technician merely lowered his head, unwilling to answer.

The more Fatima listened, the heavier her heart sank.

As a flood disaster expert, she understood a bit about dam safety information and naturally grasped why Gu Ji was asking about the "infiltration line".

The infiltration line is the intersection of the free water surface and the dam body cross-section, formed by water seeping from the upstream face of the dam, and is the primary basis for calculating dam seepage volume and rechecking the slope’s anti-sliding, anti-seismic, and impermeability capabilities. Each 1-meter rise in the infiltration line can increase the dam’s static hazard factor by 0.05, or more.

Given the severe overcapacity of the current reservoir, it was extremely dangerous that the dam safety monitoring center did not know the specific value of the infiltration line, meaning they couldn’t grasp the current safety status of the dam.

This was extremely dangerous.

Because the dam could breach any time in the future, it could be an hour later, it could happen at the very spot the construction team drilled a charge hole, or it could be the next second!

Gu Ji immediately left the monitoring room and found Marlo, who was blocking villagers.

"Marlo, can your technical reconnaissance drones still take off?"

"The rain is so heavy outside, it’s hard to take off, and visibility is severely obstructed, almost equivalent to blind operation!"

Marlo pointed at the vast waters outside the glass and shook his head, "Now we can only try to use helicopters to replace drones for low-altitude observation!"

"Then please have your men, ensure the pilots inspect the dam surface for cracks or seepage."

"Are you saying... Colonel!"

Marlo wasn’t stupid and immediately understood the implication in Gu Ji’s words, quickly pressing his earpiece to contact Mr. Swaraj still outside.

Through the window, Gu Ji saw the two Mi-17/171 helicopters repeatedly circling low along the dam body of Farakka Dam, shining a huge searchlight on it.

After observing two rounds, the radio earpiece crackled with a response.

After listening for a moment, Marlo looked more grave between his brows.

"Vidi, the pilot of Hippopotamus 4 reported that the rainfall is too heavy and visibility is poor; they can’t see if there are cracks on the dam body, but they found traces of a small landslide at the position where the east side of the Farakka Dam connects to the mountain."

"I’ll go check immediately! Speed up your actions!"

"Vidi, I’ll go with you!"

Seeing the urgency, Fatima also dashed out of the dam command center with Gu Ji, the two of them spiraling along the fire escape up to the dam top.

This is a nearly 4-meter-wide narrow dirt and stone road. Due to the tropical storm, the entrance leading to the mountain road on both sides is closed by order of the state traffic department. As soon as Gu Ji stood up there, a gust of wind blew, almost knocking him off balance.

"Watch out for the strong wind!"

He reminded Fatima, who instinctively turned around to glance at the west side of the reservoir, shivering uncontrollably. The massive reservoir hidden in the darkness had already risen to less than two meters from the dam body, and the torrential rain poured down like the sky collapsing, causing the water surface to churn and roil fiercely.

Cautiously, the two moved to the east side of the dam. The flood peak propelled by the storm repeatedly crashed against the cofferdam and the concrete high wall’s connection point. Gu Ji turned on the high-power flashlight, scanning the spot Marlo had mentioned, revealing indeed landslide traces at the dam’s internal connection area, gushing yellow water like mud under the impact of the flood.

Fatima stared directly at the collapse site, her face turning white, unsure if the moisture on her temples was rain or cold sweat.

"Vi, Vidi, the dam-mountain connection has suffered damage; this dam could collapse at any moment!"

"I know."

Gu Ji’s eyes twitched, and his scalp felt numb; he hadn’t expected things to reach the worst scenario. They now stood as if on a ticking time bomb, never knowing when it might explode.

Most importantly, if it exploded, at least hundreds of people would die!!

Everything would be for naught!

"Backup plan, backup plan..."

Suppressing the chill in his heart, he murmured repeatedly, rapidly considering various solutions for the storm and flood disaster in his mind.