Qiuhu Pumping Station

Overview

Qiuhu Pumping Station is the only district-managed medium pumping station in the whole district listed in the Measures for the Management and Protection of Water Conservancy Works in Lishui District (Lu Zheng Gui [2022] No. 2). The station takes Shijiu Lake as its water source and lifts water from the Xinqiao River, conveying it through the Qiuhu main trunk canal (Lishui District Water Affairs Bureau, 22 October 2025); the Xinqiao River is one of the main inflow rivers of the Shijiu Lake system (district government geographical position page), and both Fangbian Reservoir and Zhongshan Reservoir, two local lake-and-reservoir type water sources, can be replenished by lifting Shijiu Lake water into them through Qiuhu Pumping Station (Lishui District Water Affairs Bureau, 24 June 2024).

Towns and subdistricts: the official documents do not name the town or subdistrict where the station stands directly. Article 5(2)2 of the measures gives the upstream canal head of the station's management area as reaching "east to the outlet of the inlet channel of Yaojia Reservoir", and Yaojia Reservoir is in Jingqiao Town (Nanjing Municipal Water Bureau, March 2022); the entry's district_towns field records Jingqiao Town on that basis, as set out under Open questions.

Grade: Article 25 of the measures lists Qiuhu Pumping Station as the one medium pumping station in the district; Article 19(1) places it alongside Tiansheng Bridge Sluice, Zhongshan River Sluice, the Xiaoximen hub, seven district-managed reservoirs and the Shijiu Lake dike, their maintenance funds being entered in the budget by the district finance bureau (Lu Zheng Gui [2022] No. 2).

Management area: Article 5(2)2 of the measures gives the management area of Qiuhu Pumping Station as "the downstream diversion river south to the west of Zhoujiashan Bridge, east to 200 m upstream of Zhoujiashan Sluice, and on both sides to the toe of the landward slope; the upstream canal head north to No. 1 aqueduct, east to the outlet of the inlet channel of Yaojia Reservoir, the outer wall of the management area and the edge of the rural road, west to the side line of the pumping station on the western access road, bounded by the guard fence" (Lu Zheng Gui [2022] No. 2).

Management body: Article 3 of the measures lists the Qiuhu Water-lifting Station as one of the water engineering management bodies commissioned by the district water administrative department (Lu Zheng Gui [2022] No. 2); in 2019 the Nanjing Lishui Qiuhu Water-lifting Station passed the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Water Resources review as a provincial first-class water engineering management unit (Jiangsu Provincial Department of Water Resources, 9 January 2019).

Scale gap: no official area or length is given for Qiuhu Pumping Station. What the measures give is the four boundaries of the management area and the facility's grade, and what the replenishment lines give is line lengths and design capacities, none of which is the station's own area or length. This entry declares area_km2 and length_km in its gaps field, as set out under Open questions.

Formation and change

The Clear-Water Channel project: it began at the end of 2014, took two years, and passed completion acceptance in December 2016; the diversion route is 28 km long in all. The project takes Shijiu Lake as its water source, lifts water from the Xinqiao River at Qiuhu Pumping Station and conveys it through the Qiuhu main trunk canal to Xishanxia, with a new Xishanxia water-lifting station and an 11.2 km conveyance channel, linking four small reservoirs, Wangjiadian, Songjia, Xinzhuang and Jinlongshan, and 89 channel structures newly built along the new channel; it can replenish reservoirs and also supply the urban Jinbi River, Chenpei River and Nanmen River directly, the diverted water flowing through the urban channels into the Qinhuai River and the Tianshengqiao River and so bringing about circulation of the urban water system (Lishui District Water Affairs Bureau, 22 October 2025).

Two water-source replenishment lines (2024 reply): the Fangbian Reservoir line is 20.1 km long, starting at Qiuhu Pumping Station and running through the main trunk canal, the east trunk canal, Xiaoguantang, Hanziba Reservoir and the Jiao River into Fangbian Reservoir, with a design capacity of 2.0 cubic metres per second; the Zhongshan Reservoir line is 9.12 km long, starting at Qiuhu Pumping Station and running through the main trunk canal into Zhongshan Reservoir, with a design capacity of 5.0 cubic metres per second. The same reply records that both of the district's two water sources can be replenished by lifting Shijiu Lake water into them through Qiuhu Pumping Station (Lishui District Water Affairs Bureau, 24 June 2024).

Irrigation district rehabilitation: in May 2021 the district water affairs bureau carried out the Qiuhu irrigation district continued-construction, supporting-works and water-saving renovation project, linking the Zhongshan Reservoir east trunk canal to the Fangbian Reservoir conveyance line, and the project is in operation; with the completion of this project and the Jiao River water environment improvement project in Baima Town, the conveyance line from Qiuhu Pumping Station to Fangbian Reservoir is open throughout, with the capacity to lift and divert Shijiu Lake water through the main trunk canal, the east trunk canal and the Jiao River into Fangbian Reservoir (Lishui District Water Affairs Bureau, 25 July 2023).

Drought response: in the continuous drought of 2022, to secure supply the district government carried out a drought replenishment operation, building two dams at the mouth of the Chenjiaqiao River and the mouth of the Xinqiao River and dredging 5.4 km of lakeside diversion ditches, installing 30 pumping units at the Chenjiaqiao River mouth and 10 at the Xinqiao River mouth and lifting water into the Xinqiao River as needed to secure the normal water intake of Qiuhu Pumping Station; from 2022 to the time of the reply, total replenishment lasted more than five months, with about 36 million cubic metres lifted into the Xinqiao River, of which about 10 million cubic metres was replenished into Zhongshan Reservoir (Lishui District Water Affairs Bureau, 25 July 2023).

Water system connection project (preliminary): the district water affairs bureau carried out preliminary work on the Qinhuai River and Shijiu Lake water system connection project, which is planned to connect the Qinhuai River with the Shijiu Lake system through the Putang River, drawing Yangtze water from the Qinhuai New River pumping station and passing through the Qinhuai New River, the Qinhuai River main stream, the Lishui River, the Yigan River, the Tianshengqiao River and the Putang River into the Xinqiao River, and to build Xinqiao River storage works so as to bring about routine diversion at Qiuhu Pumping Station; the diversion route is about 85 km long in all. The main works include a new Putang River pumping sluice, an Xinqiao River storage structure, a connecting culvert sluice between the Putang and Xinqiao rivers, and training of the Putang River; as of 2023 it was a reserve project in the municipal and district government investment plan (Lishui District Water Affairs Bureau, 25 July 2023). The same bureau's 2024 reply records that the feasibility study report has been completed, with an estimated total investment of 323 million yuan, and that progress is at present suspended because the Shijiu Lake control works have made substantial progress (Lishui District Water Affairs Bureau, 24 June 2024).

Landscape and visiting

Qiuhu Pumping Station is a water works, not a scenic area. This site has found no first-tier source for tickets, opening times and visitor services at the station itself; the station and the main trunk canal lie within a water engineering management area, and visits should follow the official notices of the district water department and the local townships. This entry was checked to September 2026.

Open questions

• Scale gap: no official area or length is given for Qiuhu Pumping Station. What the measures give is the four boundaries of the management area and the facility's grade, without area or length; what the replenishment lines give is line lengths and design capacities, which are not the station's own area or length either. This entry declares area_km2 and length_km in its gaps field.
• The town and subdistrict have no direct source: no official document names the town or subdistrict where Qiuhu Pumping Station stands directly; the entry's district_towns field records Jingqiao Town on the basis that Article 5(2)2 of the measures gives the upstream canal head of the station's management area as reaching "east to the outlet of the inlet channel of Yaojia Reservoir", and Yaojia Reservoir is in Jingqiao Town (Nanjing Municipal Water Bureau, March 2022).
• The station name and the water-lifting station name stand apart: the facility is named Qiuhu Pumping Station in Article 25 of the measures, while the management body is named the Qiuhu Water-lifting Station in Article 3 of the measures and in the 2019 provincial review list; this site repeats both as they stand, neither merging them nor altering one to match the other, and does not on that account assert a one-to-one correspondence between the facility and the management body.
• Completion year gap: this site has found no completion year or grade approval document number for Qiuhu Pumping Station. The completion acceptance of the Clear-Water Channel project in December 2016 is the acceptance date of that project, not the completion year of the station itself, and must not be taken as the station's completion year.
• The four boundaries of the management area are not a length: the measures' "the downstream diversion river south to the west of Zhoujiashan Bridge, the upstream canal head north to No. 1 aqueduct" are the four boundaries of the management area, not the length of the station or the diversion river, and must not be used to fill length_km.
• The two replenishment lines are set out separately: the Fangbian Reservoir line at 20.1 km with a design capacity of 2.0 cubic metres per second, and the Zhongshan Reservoir line at 9.12 km with a design capacity of 5.0 cubic metres per second, are the two lines' parameters under the 2024 reply; the two lines differ in both distance and capacity and must not be added together as one line.
• The "85 km" is the total length of the planned diversion route, not a river length, and must not be used interchangeably with the Clear-Water Channel's "diversion route 28 km long".
• Planned and existing works are set apart: the Xinqiao River storage works and the Putang River pumping sluice were reserve projects in the 2023 reply and must not be written as built; "progress is at present suspended" is the position as of June 2024 and must not be written as cancelled.
• The basin is recorded as Shijiu Lake: the station lifts water from the Xinqiao River, and the Xinqiao River is one of the main inflow rivers of the Shijiu Lake system (district government geographical position page), so the entry records its basin as Shijiu Lake by water source and by the river it stands on; the Clear-Water Channel's sending water towards the urban area (the Qinhuai River system) is the direction of supply and does not change the station's basin attribution.
• The drought lifting figures are qualified: the about 36 million cubic metres lifted into the Xinqiao River and the about 10 million cubic metres replenished into Zhongshan Reservoir are cumulative drought-response lifting figures from 2022 to the time of the reply, not the runoff of the Xinqiao River and not the station's average annual diversion.