Pingshan Reservoir is located northwest of Yuanping Village, about six kilometers away from the village.

Riding a bicycle, Liu Yan soon arrived near the reservoir.

Liu Yan got out of the car and looked from a distance. The entire reservoir was surrounded by several green mountains with lush vegetation.

There are many tall trees beside the reservoir. These trees are connected with the vast tracts of green on the mountain, like a beautiful landscape painting, very beautiful.

After parking his bicycle, Liu Yan hiked up the embankment of Pingshan Reservoir.

Standing on the embankment and looking down, I saw that the waters of the reservoir are clear and wide, so clear that you can even see the water plants inside, like a piece of flawless emerald inlaid among the mountains.

Looking into the distance, he saw several small wooden boats wandering on the water. Liu Yan thought to himself that they should be comrades from the reservoir management office working on them.

The scenery here is so beautiful that if nothing else happened, Liu Yan would definitely stop and enjoy it.

But at this moment, he obviously does not have this leisurely mood, and his mind is filled with the disaster scenes in his previous life...

So he started walking along the embankment and observed carefully.

Liu Yan knew in his heart that there were many reasons for a serious catastrophic accident like a reservoir breach.

For example, due to natural disasters such as earthquakes, landslides, extreme storms or melting snow.

In addition to these natural factors, other factors can be roughly divided into several categories, namely foundation defects, overtopping, conduit and valve failures, and pipe seepage or damage.

According to Liu Yan's understanding, when the Pingshan Reservoir dam broke in his previous life, it happened to be raining heavily, and there was indeed a situation where the dam was overtopped.

However, general overtopping will not cause the reservoir levee to collapse so quickly.

Therefore, Liu Yan suspected that there were other unknown situations.

After walking along the embankment, Liu Yan found nothing unusual. The entire embankment seemed to have no problems at all!

However, Liu Yan knew that there must be something wrong with this levee!

Otherwise, there would not have been the disaster that killed dozens of people in the previous life. There is absolutely no mistake!

Thinking of this, Liu Yan decided to take a look under the embankment.

Liu Yan couldn't get down on the water side.

He could only climb carefully from the waterless area on the other side to the bottom of the embankment.

When they reached the bottom of the dam, Liu Yan saw that the spillway was very wide.

But it may be because the water has not been released for a long time, it is already overgrown with weeds, and it looks like a lush grassland.

Unexpectedly, Liu Yan discovered many problems after walking around the dike below.

First of all, I found that the area around the dam foundation was very humid. Even at noon when the sun was shining brightly, there were faint condensations.

This can only mean one problem, that is, there is seepage around the foundation.

Although it is not very obvious, the hidden danger is very large. Because of the damage caused by seepage, it will lead to structural instability and potential dam failure.

Secondly, Zhou Yang also discovered a large number of rat holes, the number of which was jaw-dropping.

Although Liu Yan does not know how deep these rat holes are at the moment, have they caused fundamental damage to the dam body?

But he knew very well that animal burrows were also an important reason for cracks in the dam structure.

And among all the animals that endanger dams, rats rank very high, second only to beavers and termites.

Nowadays, there is seepage in Pingshan Reservoir, and a large number of rodents have been found digging and building burrows. If there is extreme rainfall, the collapse of the embankment will become inevitable.

Next, Liu Yan recorded all these situations one by one.

I thought, if necessary, I must use the connections in the county to find the water conservancy department of Yongfeng County as soon as possible.

…

When I returned to the brigade headquarters, I saw Fan Yanping smoking a cigarette in the room, with melancholy written all over his face.

"Dad, what's wrong?"

"I just had a phone call with the commune..."

"What's the commune's opinion?"

"Any other comments? I disagree!"

"I had expected it a long time ago. This kind of thing involves too many areas, and Secretary Guo of the commune did not dare to bear this responsibility.

It seems the only option is to contact the county.”

"Who are you going to find? Secretary Pei?"

"You don't need to go to him directly, just go to Pei Xiaohong or Liang Ming. They will definitely have a solution. It won't be too late..."

After speaking, Liu Yan immediately called Pei Xiaohong.

"Liu Yan, do you have a problem with me?" Pei Xiaohong asked on the other end of the phone.

"Well, I don't know if you know anyone from the Water Conservancy Bureau. Can you help introduce them? I want to meet them." Liu Yan asked directly.

"The director of the Water Conservancy Bureau is Sun Quanming, and his daughter is Liang Ming's girlfriend, who works in the telecommunications department of the Post and Telecommunications Bureau.

By the way! Liang Ming asked her to send those five Morse code telegrams for you.

So I think, based on the relationship between Liang Ming’s father and Sun Quanming, there is absolutely no problem in introducing him!

The question is, why are you looking for the Director of Water Conservancy?"

"To be honest, the drought in Yuanping Village is serious right now, and we want to open the gate of Pingshan Reservoir to release water to alleviate the drought.

However, the commune was afraid of affecting fishery production and tried to avoid it, so I had to go to the leaders of the county water conservancy bureau!

I hope to see him as soon as possible." Liu Yan said truthfully on the phone.

As a man of two generations, Liu Yan knows very well the principles of finding people to do things.

If you are looking for your friends to do things, there will be a tacit understanding between them, even if they don't explain it clearly.

But if you ask a friend to recommend someone else to help with something, you must clearly explain what you want to do in advance.

In this way, your friends will have a good idea when they recommend you.

Secondly, the person being introduced also knows why you are looking for him.

If the other party feels that he can't handle the matter on his own, or doesn't want to handle it for you, he can just find a reason not to meet.

There will be no embarrassing situation where people come and can't help you.

Pei Xiaohong heard that it was just a small matter of opening the gate and releasing the water, and immediately said: "Okay, I will take care of this matter for Liang Ming. If it doesn't work, I will ask my dad again. In short, it will be done."

You wait by the phone right now, I will contact Liang Ming and have Liang Ming call you directly in about half an hour."

…

Half an hour later, Liang Ming called.

"Liu Yan, we have contacted Director Sun. You should arrive in the county tomorrow morning. I will arrange a dinner for you and Director Sun at noon tomorrow so that you can meet and chat with Director Sun."

"How can that be done? I'll ask Sun Quanming to do something, and I'll ask Liang Ming to arrange it. What's wrong with me, Liu Yancheng?"

Then, Liu Yan continued: "I will take the first bus from Tianyuan Commune to the county seat tomorrow, and it will be at noon tomorrow.

When the time comes, you find a state-owned hotel and I will arrange it! It’s settled, see you in the county seat tomorrow!”

After speaking, Liu Yan hung up the phone without waiting for Liang Ming to say anything.
Chapter completed!