The ten largest reservoirs in China
The ten largest reservoirs in China: Three Gorges Reservoir, Danjiangkou Reservoir, Xin'anjiang Reservoir, Longtan Reservoir, Longyangxia Reservoir, Xinfengjiang Reservoir, Hongzehu Reservoir, Tianshengqiao Level 1 Reservoir, Dongjiang Reservoir , Xiaolangdi Reservoir.
1. Three Gorges Reservoir
The Three Gorges Reservoir is an artificial lake formed by impounding water after the completion of the Three Gorges Hydropower Station. It has a total area of 1,084 square kilometers and covers 21 areas in Hubei Province and Chongqing City. Counties and cities, 2 cities, 11 counties, and 1,711 villages, including more than 150 national-level cultural relics and historic sites. A total of 846,200 people were affected by flooding in the reservoir area, and 1.13 million people were relocated.
2. Danjiangkou Reservoir
Jiangkou Reservoir is located in the middle and upper reaches of the Han River. It is distributed in Danjiangkou City, Hubei Province and Xichuan County, Nanyang City, Henan Province. The water area spans the two provinces of Hubei and Henan. It is The largest artificial freshwater lake in Asia, it is also the water source of the National South-to-North Water Diversion Middle Route Project, a national first-level water source protection zone, an important wetland protection zone in China, and a national ecological civilization demonstration area.
3. Xin'anjiang Reservoir
Xin'anjiang Reservoir is Qiandao Lake, located in Chun'an County, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. The dam was built in Linghou, Jiande City, and Xin'an River in the upper reaches of Qiantang River. On the main stream of Anjiang River, it is the largest water body in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province.
4. Longtan Reservoir
The Longtan Reservoir project is located in Shahe Township, the upper reaches of Dasha River, a first-class tributary on the left bank of Longxi River at the junction of Dianjiang County and Zhong County, Chongqing City. It is a medium-sized III reservoir project that mainly provides urban water supply and also has agricultural irrigation functions. The project mainly consists of a dam hub project and an irrigation area project.
5. Longyangxia Reservoir
Longyangxia Reservoir is located in the Longyang Gorge at the junction of ***he County and Guinan County in Qinghai Province on the upper reaches of the Yellow River. The power station has an installed capacity of 1.28 million kilowatts. , the reservoir has a design water storage level of 2,600 meters, a total storage capacity of 24.7 billion cubic meters, and a regulated storage capacity of 19.4 billion cubic meters. It is a large-scale comprehensive utilization hub project with multi-year regulation performance.
6. Xinfengjiang Reservoir
Wanlu Lake, the largest lake in South China, also known as Xinfengjiang Reservoir, is the largest eco-tourism attraction in South China because it is green all year round. It gets its name from the fact that everything is green. It was formed in 1958 when the Xinfengjiang Hydropower Station was being built, a dam was built to store water in the Yapo Mountain Canyon on the lower reaches of the Xinfengjiang River, only 6 kilometers away from the urban area of Heyuan, Guangdong Province.
7. Hongze Lake Reservoir
Located in the southwest of Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province, it is a reservoir formed by using the Hongze Lake addition control project.
8. Tianshengqiao Level 1 Reservoir
Tshengshengqiao Level 1 Hydropower Station is a key project for the west-to-east power transmission. It is also the Nanpanjiang leading power station in the upper reaches of the Xijiang River system in the Pearl River Basin. The total installed capacity of the power station is It is 1200MW (4×300MW). The first unit of the power station generated electricity at the end of 1998, and the project was completed in 2000.
9. Dongjiang Reservoir
Dongjiang Reservoir is located in the canyon 11 kilometers upstream of the first-level tributary of the Xiangshui River, Laishui, and 11 kilometers upstream of Dongjiang Town, Zixing City. The controlled watershed area is 4,719 square kilometers. It accounts for 39.6% of the Leishui watershed area. The annual average rainfall in the basin is 1,645 mm, and the average annual flow rate at the dam site is 144 cubic meters per second. The annual average runoff is 4.54 billion cubic meters, and the measured and surveyed historical maximum flows are 5,310 and 8,400 cubic meters per second respectively.
10. Xiaolangdi Reservoir
The Xiaolangdi Water Conservancy Project is located between Mengjin District and Jiyuan City, Luoyang City, Henan Province, 130 kilometers downstream of the Sanmenxia Water Conservancy Project and 40 kilometers north of Luoyang City, Henan Province. On the main stream of the Yellow River, the controlled drainage area is 694,000 square kilometers, accounting for 92.3% of the Yellow River basin area. The dam site is located on the south bank of Xiaolangdi Village in Mengjin District, Luoyang City, and on the north bank is Liaowu Village of Jiyuan City. It is the outlet of the last section of the canyon in the middle reaches of the Yellow River. It is the only control project below Sanmenxia on the main stream of the Yellow River that can achieve a large storage capacity.
Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Xiaolangdi Water Conservancy Project