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Chinese workers are digging around the clock to channel water out of the second largest quake lake in southwest Sichuan province. Villagers in downstream areas are expecting to be evacuated in case the lake bank bursts.
STORY: A team of 60 workers are digging around the clock to clear channels through a landslide dam which is blocking China's second largest quake lake. 34 unstable "quake lakes" have been formed from the blocked the flow of rivers caused by the May 12th earthquake. Xiaojiaqiao quake lake holds o
ver 7 million cubic meters of water, posing a threat to the life of 130,000 people that live in five towns downstream. Engineers say the lake is now settling, but the threat of rainfall and landslides has engineers and workers rushing to complete a drainage channel for the lake in the next two days
. [Wang Dehu, Chief Engineer, Xiaojiaqiao Lake Drainage Operation]; "The difficulty we face is that time is too tight. We arrived here on the 26th last month. In less than ten days, we have already dug a channel, so we have very short time to operate. All the equipment and workers on the site are w
orking 24 hours a day." Roughly 70 meters (229 feet) down, at the bottom of the lake, is a village which was crushed in the landslide -- remnants of houses float on the surface of the lake. Survivors in Wu Fu village are expecting to be evacuated any time. But they are worried about not being able
to get the notice to move if there is still no electricity. [Li Yunlong, Villager]: "If the quake lake bursts, they must inform us beforehand. That's why we need electricity so that we can watch the weather forecast closely to know when it will rain and when it will flood, so that we can move to t
he nearby mountains." The earthquake has killed over 69 thousand and displace more than 15 million. More than 18 thousand are still missing.

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