Liyutan Dam

Located at Sanyi, Miaoli County Taiwan. It is a peaceful, quiet place full of greenery for your sightseeing. You need to drive up the hill to get a spectacular view of the reservoir. A good environment to relax with fresh air and a chance to get away from city crowds to unwind and destress.

The reservoir has four functions, including irrigation, flood control, power generation and sightseeing, mainly to provide water for people's livelihood, agriculture and industrial use in Taichung County and Miaoli areas. And the rich natural ecology and scenery is very beautiful, often attract many tourists on holidays, the commanding height just has a landscape platform to see the whole picture, very quiet and comfortable.

Liyutan Reservoir is a reservoir off the trough in Taiwan. It is located in the lower reaches of Jingshan Creek, a tributary of Da'anxi. It is located in Sanyi Township, Dahu Township and Zhuolan Township, Miaoli County. The water catchment area is located in Dahu Township, Zhuolan Township and Sanyi Township, Miaoli County. It mainly supplies various water use in Miaoli County and Taichung City. At the same time, it has four functions of sightseeing, irrigation, flood control and power generation. The dam is 96 meters high, the water catchment area is 53.45 square kilometers, and the total water storage capacity is 126 million cubic meters. It was completed in November 1992, and it is the largest reservoir in Miaoli County. It is now managed by the Central Water Resources Bureau of the Water Resources Department of the Ministry of Economy. The reservoir has the only serrated ripple spillway in Taiwan, and the downstream is equipped with Jingshan Creek River Barrier (back pool), which regulates the reservoir's discharge water except public water (including the planned Jingshan Power Plant's power generation tail water) for irrigation and water diversion. Provincial Highway Station Line 3 is located on the water surface of the reservoir, but does not pass through the dam, which is one of the main roads leading to the Liyutan Reservoir. After the completion of the Liyutan Reservoir, 700,000 metric tons of water is currently available daily. In addition to improving water supply capacity, it is used in conjunction with Shigang Dam in Dajiaxi Basin to stabilize water supply in Miaoli County and Changhua District of Taichung City. Archaeologist Liu Yichang said that he had been to investigate in the 1980s, the reservoir bottom was originally a river terrace, Bogong Temple site formation due to the 1935 Hsinchu － Taichung earthquake exposed tens of thousands of relics of the Paleolithic network culture of 8,000 to 45,000 years, existing in the Central Research Institute, never exhibited.

Very nice place, good scenery, lung washing holy place on weekends

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