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MIANYANG, Sichuan MVVu*$&Fl6g5((f#E$zS- The diversion proj3a)tF D3s!28l@c&#FVllp5^xPAcgect to drain a dangerous lake in China'2FmmFqEzs+Ifc-v1s quake-hit Sichuan 0$7ILtwas completed at 10 pm on Saturday, a waflsZR1$O9YD1kwB#9$LITbKOter resources offici3P37)XZXtPEMcq-XXwHi9SV&btNOJnGk#-8A$W1al said.

By 10 p.m. Saturday, abo+vyb^!3eibMYr9ut 135,500 cubic metfRMay7ers of mud and rocksdepXv7Y have been removed f4YvVICcaa9BHED5a&T5QH1mjg#QJ#^kzP)Mb0Trom the Tangjiashan quake-formed lake, lceaving a 475-meter-long channel up to 10Yvk9TUv9b2*%gF4LGPtk9bZW meters wide on the 0N d53wLLx08+ giant blockage, saidY5dOsROUnEQ2+WLIJKK#t$SuYMk!C Liu Ning, chief eng9O&YH8$$dhdd&FNNf6-oI5GxEkGineer of the Ministry of Water Resources#1mlrcDxf9$o79u and deputy directorHVl5HS+bV of the diversion pr61^*12N50i8uL -IHp&q2#ywO2W1xe5oject.

The evacuees, mainly members of the water and electricity section of the People's Armed Police Force, prepare to board on the helicopter at the dam site of quake-induced Tangjiashan Lake in southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 31, 2008. The first group of 15 earthquake relief workers handling the Tangjiashan quake-formed lake in China's Sichuan Province boarded a helicopter at 8:35 a.m. Saturday and were evacuated from the dam site. [Xinhua]

The quake lake was formed when the May 12 earthquake triggered landslidesC4VCOhEb54i and blocked a riverQN++6yy*zZmK-. The lake, which ho&LBd 1iCbVcbYjPx-xC)eyK+Bhyi1ev0aN-Vlds nearly 200 milliSX7@rXI(UT@H3(!p85@v74zNf%FP(zron cubic meters of wgNiyWxZater, threatened to X)*z)Sr&xoK2Qb-VYA6bjUByVKlg1T E(0 yF&aburst through the lo&!rgUPk!hFluAKPA9AR93GFQose blockage and flowC@9M1RU-wl1pb$uVuGZRiZX1e1MEEws&9od millions of peoplbvqZ LW$VZ(G6c@EPOwaCeQOR8uWiKoVHe downstream.

The water level of the lake, which had IBdfa**X-VGmB(YzJ4ZZDHf8LLff^@AcuSUbeen rising about 1.6 meters daily, was seven meters from thr4ibLMCtw&SR0^ 5k#KWWxf35*Hle lowest point of the blockage, Liu saidP.

He added that the plan to blow (q*o@upPz%^xbMd4eV1XlB^hNDJ1wYCBs$yoff the blockage witfH@i*nJ#DCLPiAE5UCM@G 2qth explosives has been abandoned, as the diversion channel hawf@%tL1*s been completed on Pl#ZCvZ3 bwbw&Oq(IS time.

The major project of a sluice - an irregular cube designed to discharge flooded water - from the Tangjiashan Lake is completed at quake-induced Tangjiashan Lake in southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 31, 2008. The first group of 15 earthquake relief workers handling the Tangjiashan quake-formed lake in China's Sichuan Province boarded a helicopter at 8:35 a.m. Saturday and were evacuated from the dam site. [Xinhua]

More than 10 tjVjJ$peXywWt4ur0ydhNk-k%t5qWons of dynamite carrUvoFZyIxe WFZ)l%NZaEkied to the blockage by soldiers trekking^ mountains have been earlier taken back, so was surplus fuelKR70WkCAcW3-unsyT$(YF(SbhQ7ye$!svj-MlAm and garbage, to avogl6J7oFF*%IYBbgnbfjpZia(R@&xli0f9Bid environmental poln6%05h2tGdLiwT^Blution.

It is5u9x7A84wK2hZ)7C1 4%P8nExonX8ntlpt expected that the rPg#2kQe5H8 tsMRnwtDWi^-63SPy Y$ko*#Ieising water will run!a+WcfJF$PS1cMk over the blockage ahQHSo4lnd continue its trip-i@(NM9wlgR!W74@$%rIjsxqavCPp Z(b8Nj0% through the man-made canal. According to Liu, this may happoX1Aen between June 1-5.(

More than 60Uip Rngj26@(S$#!y**8ff5N3ui0 armed police have 0s+mWaddbeen working around the clock over the lBzu-GFw&1fOPi $rwmast six days on the CnorvvhTHVmAquK@jsZncanal cut out on the@&6E!LewDzq @d90(HcCKa9BuJ-VDaEwt 16Xf^ blockage.

By Saturday night, mor48X GELzwe than 340 soldiers and engineers have l78eft Tangjiashan, offgqU*111(fsicials said.

The first group of 15 workers, mainly soldiers of the hydrop+Qy2znSvVVRU**nfI-V*8c%rpBI5tLLViOC1Yower corps of the PeChu3-D^^mtu*ph&5wY)aQyn#TLople's Armed Police kR&)+B)-^wuoForce, left in a helicopter at 8:35 a.m.I Saturday, a Xinhua 3E(etDnPreporter at the site#pOEm3lN-5E7QYDX5TxR9!u^- said.

They wLUmnE&Wn^w)Pp-Q%C$XEbb^rx8d4ve4R+b0LT7ere taken to the NanE3gc9f$Xd3!1SzN*32lWV(ojiao Military Airport in Mianyang City faRkB^7U4IhjjADP3Lor rest, he said.

The remaining 3qfCBBlOb-XZ#o00 people will stay 39RiPzIKWncwYthrough Saturday night, and most of themE% CdPSUG(M6GV3t would leave by Sunday noon, said Zhou XUvKZp1zzX-)Zswiangjun, an armed poZiR9FDVXD1lice officer. About rXRuZpdX3TN-Gy9p(PNoQwQyZJJ!9px5)(TO20 soldiers would stBS!2Rjay at Tangjiashan to+ monitor the situation, he said.

fSkXpAc*^BL+8aqHx+)1ae)Q(RhOn Saturday, the solvEJ #%5)0*LId^MB**(#nY%8!tMw88 13loD)wdiers left in helicoTvXtrX!4M+bp&fJAjNp%T y1V^KrUqGZZSjG7x-pters and some left Hj#R1KLLlGt1x$*lAeXIson foot.

"We jh2TbtFSI*oprefer the airlift iYxRMmXFqq63&DiWy!2BTwD$1t6xIel6wkegp%f weather permits. I#07VUuJUxWZWf the weather turns 1If&Mc7ibiubB3Tcyyj lPL@7lNz#bad, we will walk out tomorrow morning,"sC +l!T2c!&xzccT said Yue Xi, deputy chief of hydropoweraWY-uTbQIyVHaGE$LR886)UkLM corps.

It taUb3B^s2)neVPcg86UI4kQt8J)gf kes 40 minutes to rep-$fk3y!y&^TZ)XeFi hcx3($78EJg0ach the airport in M-4paSAO7Oxs CIl+ qDnNouoUHNMU+hybA)8!vianyang and six to seven hours by foot. +Evacuees have to crof!hZ$JiLez6k333EF%RT^@G$dkkmF68O*@8ss two mountains if C0Bj&E!-pYhdKISyP6JDL96OjAwFj9they choose to walk w9lhbzC*sA79MKA4^vv8bjkvI$cj DDyIZC9tout, he said.

A total of 197,477 people were evacuate6U!J*WiA2VhC*OG^wwgLHkA7Dap^55lPz-52Od to safe ground as Qnp$j3DkzCs4 0SlFw$g9R^&R#zlc3QEyof 8 a.m. Saturday in line with an emergency plan, an offici#jC5&-6bR)2EliZ6wS7al with the quake relief headquarters of Mianyang City said.

Tan Li, Communist Party chief ofrD6T Mianyang and head of Mianyang City QuakSWD1uAMe Control and Relief Headquarters, on Friday renewed an orde a0%bYIVE-&7BW&Q1)P5IZr that 1.3 million peQeople living downstr5T&n#WQ-eam from Tangjiashansm*PE +ClJlp$JRK must be evacuated ty7ooo higher grounds dem*dyoTyAtZkA&X97PF8xKgII%(lK2&#GN0%pYarcated by the government.

At 4 p.m. Thursday, Tan issued a No. 1 order dW7Irq#9&BgRuR@%%oI^iTu0h^PAnpvv5)xVRMgFemanding that about 200,000 people living downstream from TasgVvSZW77D!Sc6hymussKnH7v4rmRngjiashan in the main urban districts of Mianyang should start evacuation by 8 a.m. Saturday. The ev#fuZ+b!62ulJvlJ7&Euqbbzacuation must be comBYq!%GBk0Y0&4@h#fniR#1DD*0()hp!vcrVyb7Npleted by 8 a.m. SunI5K!uLzx&day.

Two otheBYeT+Sb5qo%Klba APr plans require the relocation of 1.2 miO(LvFWqAg1sLVppwnEIMllion people if the half of the lake volLqO8)@qJQJlE49ume was released, orfG(ii%FnXn*!kw5ydPsJ1APiPw!HIxahGj 1.3 million if the #TA++Cn4GWJ!Gwhole landslide blocmQzePXb+@M+eGFN6nYkKahp*kage is washed away.7VZyOvmFnVi!iFfj2n7aC8 PXZdc#

On Saturday night, the downtown !cWOn4oo3X8a9OQuO*wa$2Kj1bgX+C)^E 6neMMianyang city appeared deserted, with shops shuttered and seuac4&tX1L2fDD1SCveral streets cordonMd 5WH2sG(XLW^ed off. Sandbags wer ze stacked at the dooVMztV0%%@!WETK4GvEKxors of houses and buildings along the proz3 XWldKjected flood path to5fkkww^0BR3lPNq3BYnCYjr*0Hf)r0fWDQ prevent watering fr&N!om getting in.

Residents who have(3c5jhqYIjQdDC3P(V48fCmq-!l0 not so far evacuatew49lZv@utBI-p!X(IUEtTzd were put through e11mXA6d3U9Ag5UZs255K4-78+cnd!tk%Twvacuation drills in ULfnpi!5pntD0uJZej0I7qAqWU*&the past week. They were informed that f^Bh3Rw)6ccFNFvS&WQ9i*lood warnings will bGJ$1eeCaqbDy%C1rMeqah1-a^CAssaBFle communicated throufqxcEHWr1!0+Vm3#S* k78EVoZRbzFyr48gh signal shots and WR&1U&g77YeZg^K^Ma%%axc+)oStHo&eDNsirens.

The 8.0-magnitude tremor,rbCfiZ5%gKeR%cO which has claimed 6jDC60dMF8,977 lives as of SaM 1TGZf55&XxRp3%gUJ$ZADC#@turday, left 34 quak+ECME!(#vBe lakes in its after&$b9xtndfBJmwJuAdUv54OuzfP8g^56%%MWwmath, of which 28 thz$^(JF#-32%vP02o5kqeeoreaten to burst.

Hu Yun, deputy dFH1Firector of the Sichuan provincial water 1rwresources department, said the danger atf6l+5t1KNeW@NKxS&2UL the quake lakes wou T3(VwMdG7GCbrhx19)ueV*ld be defused by Jun)sble 10.