自一九六五年以来,湖南省水利部门为加固洞庭湖防洪大堤,根治泥沙淤积危害和险工隐患,引进新设备,广泛采用机械化施工,十多年来共完成大堤吹填土方4200多万立方米,加固大堤82公里,造出耕地5000多亩,灭堤身险患219处,疏浚河道40多公里,且在施工技术上有新的突破。 Since 1965, the water conservancy department of Hunan Province has completed more than 4,200 embankment dredger earthworks for over ten years in order to reinforce the flood control embankment of Dongting Lake, cure the danger of siltation and danger of dangerous sedimentation, introduce new equipment and extensively use mechanized construction. It has 82,000 cubic meters of reinforcing levees and has built more than 5,000 mu of cultivated land. It has 219 dikes and embankments, dredged more than 40 kilometers of dredged river courses and has made new breakthroughs in construction technology.