Shihmen dam operations halted for dredging

21 September 2004


Engineers are to carry out dredging work until next May in order to clean up large quantities of solid material brought in by Typhoon Aere, announced the Northern Region Water Resources Office.

Shihmen dam is located on the Da-Han river creating a 133m high reservoir with a storage capacity of 680,000m3.




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