Soldiers have dug a water channel in the sludge-covered area to direct waters into the Bailong River.

The present article emphatically discusses the problem: while the fishing boat sails in waves how to reduce the pi-ching, submergence and racing.

That's when an earthquake suddenly lowered the swamp 15 to 30 feet and mud and sand rushed in, covering everything with sediment and killing trees and other plants.