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| Westward panorama shot overlooking Renyitan reservoir from the east. |
Yesterday I drove up late in the afternoon to Chiayi city and on to Renyitan reservoir. I expected the management staff to have the long weekend off, but I wanted to try once more to see if I could find any other evidence of a water course leaving the west side of Renyitan to run north-west toward Lantan.
Once again, I didn't find a thing.
For some time now I have harboured the suspicion that this conduit may have been destroyed to make way for the stretch of National Freeway Number 3 which runs between the two reservoirs. If that is the case then it would follow that Lantan is now fed purely by direct rainfall on its' surface, though I can't quite bring myself to believe this simply because I've never seen it dry.
I took a few pictures whilst I was there, and then drove back to Tainan city.
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| Looking eastward from the west end of the dam over the water quality monitoring station. |
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| The first of several shots looking eastward toward the mountains of Alishan district. I had wanted to stitch these into a panorama, but for some reason neither of the two programs I use could do it. |
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| Looking toward the upstream face of the Renyitan dam with the mountains in the background. |
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| The pylon standing in the water, with the parking area off to the right. |
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| The dam at its' highest point with tourists ambling along the top and flying kites. |
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| Wide-angle context shot. |
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| The barrier between the reservoir and the feeder stream with water flowing over the top. |
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| Looking westward back toward the main tourist corner of the reservoir. |
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| I took a series of these shots and again, neither of the two programs I use could stitch them together into a panorama shot, which is a shame. |
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| The water quality monitoring station is just visible in the center right of this image, with bits of the south side of Chiayi city in the background. |
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| Looking toward the trees on the north western side which hide two corridors of water, one of which contains the portcullis gate for the feeder conduit to Lantan reservoir. |
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