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" ... Last week, the Three Gorges Dam opened three floodgates as the water level behind it rose more than 50 feet above the flood zone. Another flood crest is expected to arrive at the dam on Tuesday, the AP article states, adding that China’s military has been testing the strength of embankments and shoring them up with sandbags and rocks. ... "
" ... “We had to do a lot of filling in the turns to get it away from 30 degrees,” Swift said. “To get the track where we could use a motor grader to place it, keep equipment up on the track, because dirt doesn’t allow or like 30-degree embankments. With that we used the old dirt as a base and the good dirt as a surface.” ... "