How big is Maoming Gaozhou Reservoir?

Maoming Gaozhou Reservoir is a large-scale artificial water conservancy project. It was constructed in the late 1950s and has decades of history. The surrounding natural ecosystem has long been re-formed, and various A variety of aquatic animals grow here, surrounded by green plants, which is very beautiful. So how big is the area of ??Maoming Gaozhou Reservoir? How big is Maoming Gaozhou Reservoir?

The total water collection area of ??Maoming Gaozhou Reservoir is 1,022 square kilometers, with a total storage capacity of 1.148 billion cubic meters. Gaozhou Reservoir is composed of Liangde Reservoir and Shigu Reservoir. The Liangde Reservoir has a water collection area of ??497 square kilometers and a total storage capacity of 646 million cubic meters; the Shigu Reservoir has a water collection area of ??525 square kilometers and a total storage capacity of 502 million cubic meters. The two reservoirs are connected. The later design normal high water level is also 90.0 meters. Introduction to Maoming Gaozhou Reservoir

It is responsible for agricultural irrigation, industrial and domestic water supply in Gaozhou, Huazhou, Dianbai, Maonan District, Maogang District and Wuchuan City.

In 1956, the state built an oil shale refinery in Maoming City. The construction of shale open-pit mines and shale oil plants was included in the key projects of the first five-year plan. At the same time, there was preliminary planning to build a 50-year-old oil shale refinery. In order to solve the water source problem of the city's domestic and industrial water supply, the petrochemical city with a population of 10,000 people began to build the Gaozhou Reservoir.

The scale of Gaozhou Reservoir is magnificent and the project is arduous. In the absence of equipment and machinery at that time, the completion of this project relied entirely on manpower. Although it involves hoeing, digging, shoulder-picking, and hand-pushing, it is done at a mechanized speed. All workers and cadres on the construction site worked day and night, worked selflessly, worked hard, carried out major competitions, contests, and engaged in technological innovation, making great contributions to this great project.

According to statistics, 24 communes (towns) mobilized more than 40,000 laborers that year, bringing their own rations to fight day and night on the reservoir construction site. Participate in the construction of reservoir projects.

During the construction process of the reservoir, more than 100 advanced units and more than 18,000 advanced producers (workers) emerged on the construction site.

Gaozhou Reservoir is the heart of Gaozhou people A vivid elaboration of the spirit of hard work and entrepreneurship. Under the guidance of the oath of "Until the reservoir is completed, we will never return to our hometown", the reservoir builders showed the drive to "take shelter from heavy rains, work without stopping in light rains, work hard on sunny days, and fight the north wind as the south wind" , using semi-mechanized construction conditions, it took only one and a half years to complete two high-quality reservoirs that foreign experts expected to last ten years.

Reservoir immigrants gave up the farmland and family business left by their ancestors and moved away from their hometowns for the sake of reservoir construction and national interests. The construction of the Gaozhou Reservoir flooded 43,900 acres of cultivated land, 679,900 square meters of housing, and resettled 12,100 households and 61,200 people.

It is these passionate Gaozhou people who sacrificed their lives for everyone and made the miracle of Gaozhou Reservoir construction possible with their spirit of selfless dedication.

Today, Gaozhou Reservoir is a large-scale (I) water conservancy project focusing on irrigation, flood control, water supply, combined with power generation and other comprehensive utilization. It is responsible for more than 3 million people and a large number of people in the middle and lower reaches of Jianjiang River. Industrial and mining enterprises have the important task of flood control. They are an important water source for industrial and agricultural production and drinking water for urban residents in Maoming. They are the "bank of life, development and hope" for Maoming and even Zhanjiang.