Hungtse

The Hwai River, already mentioned when speaking of Anhwei province, pours its waters to-day into the same Hungtse Lake through which the Yellow River formerly flowed. The lake is connected on the northeast with the Grand Canal, while to the southeast lies another vast expanse of water, all of which are a standing menace to the country.

1911 May 13 [1911 March 20], M. Kennelly, S.J., “Famine Conditions in North Kiangsu”, in America: A Catholic Review of the Week, volume V, number 5, sourced from SHANGHAI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 108, column 2

The plan called for the construction of detention reservoirs (some with power-generating capacity) on the upstream tributaries, the dredging of the main channel and strengthening of dikes, flood-diversion dams and reservoirs in mid-course, and the digging of a new outlet to the Yellow Sea from Hungtse Lake, in the lower reaches of the Hwai Ho. The outlet, known as the North Kiangsu Canal, was inaugurated in 1952. Of twenty-seven planned detention reservoirs, about ten have been completed. To relieve the load on the Hwai Ho during the flood stage, a parallel outlet channel, the New Pien Canal, was dug in the late 1960’s to collect part of the discharge of left tributaries and divert it into Hungtse Lake.

1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18