Three Gorges Dam Construction Details & Study

The three Gorges Dam is world's largest hydro-electric dam being built at Sandouping, China–Yangtze River. It's also going to be the single largest source of electric power. I invite all Civil CEans to discuss this mammoth construction mega-project and also provide some interesting insights to civil engineering enthusiasts like me 😀

What I hear is, the life span of the dam is only 70 years. Can someone begin the discussion with why the life spam of this dam is so short?

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  • CIVILPRINCESS

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    @civilprincess-308hDv Mar 17, 2011

    some discussions were made on this topic earlier. #-Link-Snipped-#

    but is it true that the life is just 70 years?