This mysterious round structure handles excess water when the level of Sun Moon Lake is too high. Originally it drained into Shuili River, but nowadays any overflow is channeled toward Daguan Power Plant. It has various other names in Chinese such as overflow outlet (溢水口) and sky-well (天井). Although access is prohibited by a gate you can get close to the structure and appreciate its impressive 24 meter-wide span from the nearby footpath.
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Links
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
- Beitoupu Lin Bingyan (北投埔林炳炎)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Energy Industry in Taiwan (台灣能源業)
- Sun Moon Lake Hydroelectric Project (日月潭水力電氣工事)
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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.