Feitsui Dam

The Feicui Dam ( Chinese翡翠 水库, Pinyin Feicui Shuǐkù ) (also called Feitsui rewritten ) is a dam in the district Shiding the city of New Taipei City in northern Taiwan. Your reservoir whose surface extends over the districts Shiding and Pinglin and fed by the dammed river Beishi, is the second largest reservoir in Taiwan and is of great importance for drinking water supply in the greater Taipei area. In addition, it is used to generate electricity. Unlike the further south west second major dam north of Taiwan, the Shimen Dam, the Feicui Dam is not publicly available and therefore no local recreation or tourist destination.

History

The plans for the construction of the dam began in 1971 and lasted eight years. The construction work began in August 1979 and lasted until June 1987. During the damming of the river valleys were flooded Beishi some natural, whose population has been resettled. The dam is named after one of the valleys.

Effects on the environment

Since the areas affected by the flooding valleys were sparsely populated, the resettlement of the population, although designed relatively easily, but disappeared many natural beauties and landscapes that were previously popular destinations. In addition, the flooding destroyed kanehirai the habitat of Rhododendron, a rare, occurring only in Feicui rhododendron type that is not since found growing wild.