The gorgeous bend in the road in Liugui district a few kilometers outside of Baoli township...
The view northward tracing the Laonung river upstream into the mountains of Taoyuan district...
Just after Taoyuan village, looking back downstream at the riverbed construction...
I crossed the suspension bridge over the river to find the view looking back westward from the eastern side of the river...
What is under construction here is a dyke and diversion channel. I suspect this is simply flood defence to protect the newly rebuilt section of highway 20 from the river by diverting some of its' flow away from the natural bend which the highway passes over and into the diversion channel protected by the dyke before rejoining the river further downstream...
A closer view of the dyke with the channel behind it...
No luck. The location of the weir to feed water to the trans-basin diversion channel leading to the back of Tseng-wen reservoir remains a mystery. I decided to head back south out of Taoyuan...
When I reached Jiaxian township, I turned right onto highway 29 and drove up to see the Xiaolin village memorial park...
Somebody called me just before the camera shutter went into action. I've been having fun on the new bike...
Where Xiaolin village used to be, buried under a five-year old pile of earth that now has bushes and trees growing out of it...
From the bridge over the Cishan river looking back upstream... The mountainside in the background is covered in trees to the left and to the right (and also somewhat at the top, though this is not so clear in this image), leaving a large, tree-less gap in the middle. That gap also appears to form a kind of recess in the face of the mountain...
Immediately beneath the gap is that extremely large pile of earth that entirely covers that side of the river just a short distance upstream. A gigantic tomb.
I am giving up on this search for the missing weir for now, as I have already spent two Sundays looking for it without success. Next weekend I will either go further south down to Pingtung county, or the short distance north to Chiayi county to take another look for something at Lantan reservoir.
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