The Dongping Lake () is a freshwater lake in
Shandong Province of
China
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. It is situated in
Dongping County in the west of
Shandong Province, south of the lower reaches of
Yellow River
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. The lake has a total area of about 148 square kilometers. The average depth is 1.59 m, the water storage capacity is about 2.35×10
8m
3.
The Dongping Lake is the second largest fresh-water lake in Shandong Province; it is the only extant water area of the Eight Hundred Li Liangshan Lake () described in the famous medieval novel, ''
Water Margin'', one of the
Four Great Classical Novels
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of
Chinese literature
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.
The Dongping Lake will be used as a reservoir on the Eastern Route of China's
South–North Water Transfer Project. (The
Yangtze River
The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ) is the longest river in Eurasia and the third-longest in the world. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and flows including Dam Qu River the longest source of the Yangtze, i ...
to
Yellow River
The Yellow River, also known as Huanghe, is the second-longest river in China and the List of rivers by length, sixth-longest river system on Earth, with an estimated length of and a Drainage basin, watershed of . Beginning in the Bayan H ...
route, mostly piggybacking on, or paralleling, the
Grand Canal of China.
[The map at the]
Eastern Route Project (ERP)
" page, on the official project site.)
As the water transfer system entered its testing stage in the summer of 2013, the area's
fish farmers started complaining that the polluted Yangtze River water entering the Dongping Lake is killing their fish.
Chinese Water Diversion Project Kills Fish on Test Run
2013-07-08
See also
* Zhoucheng Subdistrict
* Chinese replenishment ship Dongpinghu
Notes
{{Lakes of China
Lakes of China
Bodies of water of Shandong