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The Maoming Gaozhou Reservoir is one of the most important local sources of domestic water. It is also a large-scale water conservancy project. It was built with the blood and sweat of our predecessors and remains. It is an infinite blessing to future generations. The water here is very clear and the water resources are extremely abundant. It is a good travel destination.

How many square kilometers does Maoming Gaozhou Reservoir cover?

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, it was initially planned 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 carried out technological innovations, 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 the reservoir project.

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

The Gaozhou Reservoir is a vivid illustration of the hard entrepreneurial spirit of Gaozhou people. Guided by the oath to "never return to my hometown when it is completed", the reservoir builders took the initiative to "take shelter from heavy rains, do not stop work in light rains, work hard on sunny days, and beat the north wind to the south wind". It only took one year to complete the construction under semi-mechanized conditions. Two high-quality reservoirs that foreign experts expected to last ten years were completed in half the time.

Reservoir immigrants gave up their ancestral farmland and family business and moved away from their hometowns for the construction of the Gaozhou reservoir. *** 43,900 acres of cultivated land, 679,900 square meters of housing, and 12,100 households and 61,200 people were resettled.

It is the spirit of these passionate Gaozhou people who sacrifice their homes for everyone. The miracle of Gaozhou Reservoir construction has been achieved.

Nowadays, Gaozhou Reservoir is a large-scale (I) water conservancy project mainly engaged in irrigation, flood control, water supply, combined with power generation and other comprehensive utilization. It is responsible for the Jianjiang River. The downstream population of more than 3 million and a large number of 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 "reservoir of life, development and hope" for Maoming and even Zhanjiang.

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