Zhelin Reservoir is a reservoir

Reservoir

A reservoir , artificial lake or dam is used to store water.Reservoirs may be created in river valleys by the construction of a dam or may be built by excavation in the ground or by conventional construction techniques such as brickwork or cast concrete.The term reservoir may also be used to...

 located between Yongxiu (永修), Wuning (武宁) and Xiushui

Xiushui

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 (修水) county. All three counties belong to Jiujiang

Jiujiang

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, a metropolis

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 of Jiangxi

Jiangxi

' is a southern province in the People's Republic of China. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze River in the north into hillier areas in the south, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to...

 province, China

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. It's 40 kilometers to the north of Nanchang

Nanchang

Nanchang is the capital of Jiangxi Province in southeastern China. It is located in the north-central portion of the province. As it is bounded on the west by the Jiuling Mountains, and on the east by Poyang Lake, it is famous for its scenery, rich history and cultural sites...

, and 90 kilometers to the south of Mount Lushan

Mount Lushan

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. This reservoir is the largest in Jiangxi province with a storage capacity of 7,920,000,000 cubic metres.

Although the dam is located in an area of low seismic activity, after the impounding of the Zhelin Reservoir the seismic activity increased markedly.

The dam

Dam

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 of this reservoir is the biggest earth-filled embankment dam

Embankment dam

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 in Asia

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.

The American reality program Survivor

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filmed its fifteenth season, Survivor: China

Survivor: China

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, on islands in the reservoir between June and August 2007. Survivor host Jeff Probst

Jeff Probst

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claimed that this was the first American television series to be filmed entirely within China.