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A former pumping facility at the intake of Wandan Canal (萬丹圳), built to draw water from the Gaoping River (高屏溪) to irrigate the rice paddies of both Xinyuan and Wandan. The venture began with the establishment of the Wandan Water Conservancy Association (萬丹水利組合) in 1925, culminating with the completion of the canal in 1928. The pump house was equipped with four diesel-powered pumps. Siltation began to reduce irrigation water volume in the early post-war period and it eventually went out of service around 1982. A new pumping station was built a little further north around the same time. It is more officially known as the Wandan Canal No. 1 Pumping Machine Room (萬丹圳第一抽水廠機房) although it is not technically within the borders of Wandan.
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Warning: this location is abandoned, hazardous, or otherwise neglected and may be unsafe and even dangerous! Exercise appropriate precautions when visiting.
警告：此處已廢棄或長期無人管理，可能存在潛在危險。造訪時請務必提高警覺，並做好相關安全防護措施。
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Links
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
- Irrigation Agency, Ministry of Agriculture (農業部農田水利署)
- Explore the Footprints of Liyushan (探尋鯉魚山的足跡)
- YouTube: Moriyama Go Culture Worker (MoriyamaGo文化工人)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Urban Exploration in Taiwan (台灣城市探險)
- Agricultural History in Taiwan (台灣農業史)
Series: Southern Taiwan Ride 2018
Dispatches from a weeklong bicycle trip around southern Taiwan in late 2018. I began the ride in Tainan, crossed into Qishan, headed into the mountainous interior as far as Liugui, did a loop through Pingtung, and finished around Zuoying, visiting the sites of nearly 25 old movie theaters. Many entries remain to be added; this series is far from over.
- Yancheng Salt Office (原臺灣總督府專賣局臺南支局鹽埕分室)
- Hunei Wenxian Theater (湖內文賢戲院)
- Gangshan Shinto Shrine (岡山神社)
- Fengshan Dongya Theater (鳳山東亞大戲院)
- Lower Tamsui River Iron Bridge Kaohsiung Section (下淡水溪鐵橋高雄段)
- Zhuliao Water Intake Station (大樹竹寮取水站)
- Changle Theater (大樹昌樂大戲院)
- Gushan Village Old House (姑山里老屋)
- Pengtangcheng Tobacco Barn (彭堂城菸樓)
- Zilai Theater (自來大戲院)
- Neipu Xingnan Village Ritual Paper Incinerator (屏東內埔興南村敬聖亭)
- Neipu Qinghe Theater (清河大戲院)
- Chaozhou Tiantaibao Temple (潮州天台寶宮)
- Chaozhou Mingde Private High School (潮州鎮私立明德中學)
- Chaozhou Wanbao Theater (潮州萬寶戲院)
- Wandan Canal No. 1 Pump House (萬丹圳第一抽水廠機房)
- Liutui Martyrs’ Shrine (六堆忠義亭)
- Ahou Old City (阿猴城)
- Pingtung Academy (屏東書院)
- Pingtung Yamato Hotel (屏東大和旅社)
- Pingtung Dapeng No. 7 Village (屏東大鵬七村)
- Former IJN Fongshan Communication Center (原日本海軍鳳山無線電信所)
- Zuoying Guomao Community (左營果貿社區)
- Zuoying Qingshui Theater (左營清水大戲院)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.