Sterling, Va., July 25, 2002 -- As a result of Sutron's on-going partnership with NARI Group Corporation, the research division of China's Ministry of Electrical Power, a $452,128 order for standard Sutron hydrological/meteorological equipment was received in July from the Three Gorges Project in China.
The equipment will be used to monitor rainfall and water levels at 85 locations in the Yangtze River Basin upstream of the Dam for water management and power production purposes.
China's Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, when finished, the world's largest, will control the level of the Yangtze downstream to greatly reduce the threat of flooding, and lead to a new era of economic development in China. Over 360 million people live within the watershed of the Yangtze River. The dam is also needed to provide electrical power for China, producing 18,000 megawatts, or the output equivalent to about 15 nuclear power plants.
The Dam will be 610-feet high running about 1.3 miles from bank to bank. The reservoir created by the backflow will extend 360 miles up river to Chongqing, a distance equal to nearly half the length of California. When it is completed in 2009, the enormous Three Gorges Dam Reservoir will be visible from the moon.
Sutron is a major supplier of real-time environmental remote monitoring and control systems all over the world and for several Federal Agencies, including the US Geological Survey, the National Ocean Service, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the National Weather Service.
Since 1975 Sutron designed and manufactured data acquisition and communications equipment has been operating unattended in remote, inhospitable places, under the most extreme environmental conditions on the planet. Over 25,000 environmental monitoring stations, which include telemetry, hydro-meteorological sensors, and data management software, are in operation globally at the present time.
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