The risk of such disruptions appears to be far more severe than anticipated and is
leading to new resettlement efforts as the danger zones around the margins of the
reservoir expand. In the fall of 2007, officials and experts admitted the Three Gorges
Dam project had caused more frequent landslides (Xinhua 2007b,c). Tan Qiwei, vice-
mayor of Chongqing, told a forum in Wuhan that the shore of the reservoir had
collapsed in 91 places and a total of 36 km of shoreline had caved in. In some cases,
landslides around the reservoir had produced massive waves as high as 50 meters,
causing even more damage along the reservoir’s edge