Lu Mountain West Sea (), also named Zhelin Reservoir (,

Gan The word Gan or the initials GAN may refer to: Places *Gan, a component of Hebrew placenames literally meaning "garden" China * Gan River (Jiangxi) * Gan River (Inner Mongolia), * Gan County, in Jiangxi province * Gansu, abbreviated ''Gā ...

: Chā-līm fîkhú), is a

reservoir A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation. Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including contro ...

located between the counties of

Yongxiu Yongxiu () is a county under the administration of Jiujiang City in northern Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China, on the western shores of Poyang Lake. , the county has a total population of 361,000 residing in an area of . Bordering c ...

, Wuning, and Xiushui in

Jiujiang Jiujiang (), formerly transliterated Kiukiang or Kew Keang, is a prefecture-level city located on the southern shores of the Yangtze River in northwest Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China. It is the second-largest prefecture-level city ...

, China. It is 90 kilometers to the south of Lu Mountain, with a total area of 308 square kilometers. The reservoir is the largest in Jiangxi province, with a storage capacity of 7,920,000,000 cubic metres. Although the dam is located in an area of low seismic activity, after the impounding of the Zhelin Reservoir, seismic activity increased markedly. Zhelin Reservoir is named after Zhelin Town, the site of the largest

hydropower Hydropower (from el, ὕδωρ, "water"), also known as water power, is the use of falling or fast-running water to produce electricity or to power machines. This is achieved by converting the gravitational potential or kinetic energy of a w ...

earth dam An embankment dam is a large artificial dam. It is typically created by the placement and compaction of a complex semi-plastic mound of various compositions of soil or rock. It has a semi-pervious waterproof natural covering for its surface an ...

blocking project in Asia. It has an average water depth of 45 meters and a visibility of more than 9 meters, rich in wild fish species, like ''

Culter alburnus ''Culter alburnus'', the topmouth culter, is an East Asian species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the cyprinid genus '' Culter''. Geographic distribution and habitat ''Culter alburnus'' occurs in Lake Buir, the Onon and Kherlen drainages in ...

'', Red-tailed ''

Xenocypris ''Xenocypris'' is a genus of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia. There are currently seven species in this genus, one, ''X. yushensis'', being known only from fossils, and one, ''X. yunnanensis'', which is critically endangered or recently exti ...

'', ''

Xenocypris davidi ''Xenocypris davidi'' () is a freshwater fish native to the Pearl River, Hainan Island, the Yangtze River, the Yellow River The Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: , Mandarin: ''Huáng hé'' ) is the second-longest river in China, aft ...

'', and ''

Siniperca chuatsi ''Siniperca chuatsi'', the mandarin fish (,), is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish from the family Sinipercidae, the Oriental perches. It is the type species of the genus ''Siniperca'' (Chinese perches). Description ''Siniperca chautsi'' ...

''. '' CNKI'' The American

reality program Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early 19 ...

'' Survivor'' filmed its fifteenth season, '' Survivor: China'', on islands in the reservoir between June and August 2007. ''Survivor'' host

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claimed that this was the first American television series to be filmed entirely within China.

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