Location Taoyuan City, Taiwan Impounds Dahan River Installed capacity 40 MW Construction began 1978 | Opening date 1984 Height 82 metres (269 ft) Opened June 1984 Impound Dahan River | |
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Total capacity 16,700,000 cubic metres (13,500 acre·ft) People also search for Kukuan Dam, Tienlun Dam, Qingshan Dam, Minghu Dam, Ma'an Dam | ||
Junghua dam ronghua dam
Junghua Dam, also spelled Ronghua Dam, (Chinese: 榮華大壩; pinyin: Rónghuá Dàbà; Wade–Giles: Jung2-hua2 Ta4-pa4) is a dam crossing the Dahan River, a tributary to the Tamsui River, in Fuxing District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
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Map of Junghua Dam, Fuxing District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan 336
The dam was started in December 1978 and finished in June 1984. The cost was NT$1.83 billion. The Junghua Dam is within the catchment area of the Shihmen Reservoir, 27 kilometers upstream of the Shihmen Dam in the Dahan River gorge. The dam's main function is to prevent sand from moving downstream and building up as silt in the Shimen Reservoir. It also serves as a diversion point for sending water to a 40,000 kilowatt hydroelectric plant located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) downstream.
The dam has almost no effective storage capacity, as almost its entire reservoir has been filled by sediment.