As Master Xi had expected, the seven seeping holes were no longer just gushing water and sand, but were now spurting water like fountains. One of the seeping holes was ejecting a water column nearly two meters high!
The water pressure was so great that trying to use straw to filter and retain the sand was impossible; all they could do was let it spray.
The newly built cofferdam formed a semicircle with the dry dike in front, covering an area of over 1,400 square meters.
After six and a half hours of earthworks, the cofferdam was nearly nine meters high, meaning the semicircular reservoir in front of them could hold nearly ten thousand cubic meters of water.
The seeping holes would only grow larger, and the water pouring in would only come faster and in greater volumes.
The treacherous dike in front could collapse at any moment, and the newly built cofferdam, not being properly compacted, was not very sturdy, making the sandbag wall for slope protection crucial!
