Urumqi: Chaiwaobao Lake Lake has expanded more than 100 times in 8 years

Tianshan Net News (Reporter Ma Bei reported) Chaiwo Lake in the midsummer, rippling the waves, the reeds swaying the wind, the swan danced here, as well as red -billed gulls, gray cranes, heron, and green head ducks. Ecological scroll.

On July 8th, the natural landscape of Chaiwao Lake National Wetland Park. Pomegranate cloud/Xinjiang Daily reporter Ma Bei Ma Bei

"According to the latest satellite remote sensing monitoring data, the area of ​​Chai Wo Castle Lake has returned from 0.18 square kilometers in 2014 to 22.41 square kilometers, extended by more than 100 times." Liu Qi, the director of the Water Resources Management Center of Urumqi City, told reporters that the water storage volume of Chaiwaobao Lake also increased from 60,000 cubic meters to 20.6 million cubic meters in 2014, an increase of 343 times.

Chaiwao Castle Lake is described as the "back garden" of Urumqi. Since the end of the 1990s, with the continuous increase in population, agriculture, industrial, and living water has increased, and regional groundwater mining has continued to intensify, leading to a decline in water levels, shrinking lakes, and ecological deterioration.

In 2017, the Central Environmental Protection Supervision Team gave feedback on the ecological issues of Chaiwo Lake, and the Urumqi Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government continued to improve the refinement of the restoration of the ecological governance of Chaiwo Lake.

Chaiwaobao Lake Basin is an important water source in Urumqi. Agricultural production in the basin is more concentrated. In order to limit groundwater mining, more than 20,000 acres of farmland in the area has implemented "retreat and replenish lakes". Yuan; stop the two surrounding river agricultural irrigation water and shut down 24 eye agricultural machine wells. It can save more than 36 million cubic meters of water each year, all of which are used to supplement the ecological water of Chaiwohu Lake.

At the same time, the construction of the Urumqi River flood split project with a total length of 34 kilometers and a total investment of 794 million yuan was completed. From 2019 to 2020, the flood of the Urumqi River was introduced to Chaiwaobao Lake to supplement ecological water. Lake 28 million cubic meters.

"Today, the number and types of birds around Chaiwo Castle Lake have also increased. The climate has improved significantly, the plant community and diversity have increased significantly, and the soil salt is reduced." Wang Weijun, director of the coordination section, said that there are as many as 100 birds that have migrated to Chaiwaobao Lake in the past two years, and there are 28 national wild protection animals that often come out.

"The improvement and gradual recovery of the ecological environment of Chaiwo Lake Lake not only plays an important role in regional climate regulation, water conservation of water, flood storage, drought prevention, and maintaining biodiversity. The development of tourism has laid a good environmental foundation. "Liu Qi said.

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