Shihmen Dam (Chinese: 石門水壩 also spelled Shimen or Shihman literally Stone Gate Dam) is a rock fill dam across the Dahan Creek in northern Taoyuan County Taiwan. The dam’s main purposes are water supply flood control and hydroelectricity generation and it holds the Shihmen Reservoir (石門水庫) Taiwan’s third largest reservoir and artificial lake. Completed in 1964 the dam and reservoir now supply water to more than three million people in northern Taiwan.
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