TGP Ecological and Environmental Impact Monitoring Achievements Before Impoundment

Abstract

The TGP eco-environmental monitoring system was set in motion in 1996. Since then, all the sub-systems and major stations have carried out regular or irregular monitoring, observation and surveys of natural, ecological, environmental, and economic factors in the TGP affected areas from multiple perspectives in line with the standards published by the State or industries. They have accumulated a lot of data and obtained the baseline materials of the dam affected areas. This chapter gives a general picture of the monitoring achievements (not including sedimentation and degradation, earthquake induction, and geological disasters) by major stations before the impoundment of the reservoir in June 2003. Readers interested in details may read related technical reports.