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The Dongping Lake (Chinese: 东平湖; pinyin: Dōngpíng Hú) is a freshwater lake in Shandong Province of China. It is situated in Dongping County in the west of Shandong Province, south of the lower reaches of Yellow River. The lake has a total area of about 148 square kilometers. The average depth is 1.59 m, the water storage capacity is about 2.35×108m3.[1]
| Dongping Lake | |
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  Dongping Lake | |
| Coordinates | 35°57′53″N 116°11′45″E |
| Lake type | Fresh water lake |
| Primary inflows | Dawen River |
| Primary outflows | Yellow River |
| Catchment area | 9,064 km2 (3,500 sq mi) |
| Basin countries | China |
| Max. length | 23.5 km (15 mi) |
| Max. width | 9.7 km (6 mi) |
| Surface area | 148 km2 (100 sq mi) |
| Average depth | 1.59 m (5 ft) |
| Max. depth | 2.4 m (8 ft) |
| Water volume | 235×106 m3 (8.3×109 cu ft) |
| Surface elevation | 41 m (135 ft) |
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 (Chinese: 八百里梁山水泊) described in the famous medieval novel, Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.[2][better source needed]
The Dongping Lake will be used as a reservoir on the Eastern Route of China's South–North Water Transfer Project. (The Yangtze River to Yellow River route, mostly piggybacking on, or paralleling, the Grand Canal of China.[3][4]) 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.[5]
