| Mount Lu West Sea | |
| Pushpin Map: | China |
| Location: | Jiujiang, China |
| Coords: | 29.29°N 115.34°W |
| Type: | reservoir and tourism attraction |
| Basin Countries: | China |
| Area: | 308km2 |
| Depth: | 45m (148feet) |
| Volume: | 8e9m3 |
| Frozen: | No |
| Islands: | 997, major ones 13 |
| Pushpin Map: | Jiangsu |
| Pushpin Map Alt: | Location of the reservoir |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | --> |
Mount Lu West Sea, also named Zhelin Reservoir (Gan: Chā-līm fîkhú),[1] is a reservoir located between the counties of Yongxiu, Wuning, and Xiushui in Jiujiang, China. It is 90 kilometers to the south of Mount Lu, with a total area of 308 square kilometers. The reservoir is the largest in Jiangxi province, with a storage capacity of 7,920,000,000 cubic metres.[2]
Although the dam is located in an area of low seismic activity, after the impounding of the Zhelin Reservoir, seismic activity increased markedly.[3]
Zhelin Reservoir is named after Zhelin Town, the site of the largest hydropower earth dam blocking project in Asia.[4] It has an average water depth of 45 meters and a visibility of more than 9 meters, rich in wild fish species, like Culter alburnus, Red-tailed Xenocypris, Xenocypris davidi, and Siniperca chuatsi.[5]
The American reality program Survivor filmed its fifteenth season, , on islands in the reservoir between June and August 2007. Survivor host Jeff Probst claimed that this was the first American television series to be filmed entirely within China.