Water Levels Hit Record at Three Gorges Dam, Chongqing Residents Forced to Evacuate

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Residents in the Chinese cities of Chongqing and Wuhan had to flee when the fifth flood peak on the Yangtze River arrived at the Three Gorges Dam.

The water coming into the dam reached 75,000 cubic meters per second on the morning of Aug. 20, the highest level since the dam was commissioned in 2003.