2. Shihmen Dam across the Dahan Creek in northern Taoyuan County, Taiwan. The dam's
main purposes are water supply, flood control and hydroelectricity generation, and it
holds the Shihmen Reservoir, Taiwan's third largest reservoir and artificial lake.
Completed in 1964, the dam and reservoir now supply water to more than three million
people in northern Taiwan. However, sedimentation issues have impacted and continue
to threaten safe dam operations.
石門水庫在北台灣桃園縣,橫跨大漢溪。大壩的主要目的是供水,防洪和水力發電,石門
水庫是台灣第三大水庫和人工湖。完工於1964年,大壩和水庫目前供應北台灣三百多萬民
眾的水源。然而水庫的淤積問題已經影響並持續威脅大壩的安全和運營。
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