Gaotang lake is a shallow freshwater lake in China's
Anhui province, on the borders of
Huainan,
Dingyuan County
Dingyuan County () is a county of Anhui Province, China. It is under the administration of Chuzhou city.
History
The ancestral home of Li Keqiang, the Premier of the People's Republic of China, was Dingyuan.
In December 2011, Taiwan
...
and
Fengyang County. The lake is intensively used for
aquaculture
Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture), also known as aquafarming, is the controlled cultivation ("farming") of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants (e.g. lot ...
(
black carp among others).
In 1956, a
sluice
Sluice ( ) is a word for a channel controlled at its head by a movable gate which is called a sluice gate. A sluice gate is traditionally a wood or metal barrier sliding in grooves that are set in the sides of the waterway and can be considered ...
was built in the outflow of the lake, mainly to prevent water from the Huaihe River from moving upstream.
References
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{{Lakes of China
Lakes of Anhui