Taoyuan Mayor Zheng Wencan (3rd from left) and others attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the "Shezixi Aihe Bridge to the Old Hotel Bridge Remediation Project".

(Photo by reporter Li Rongping)

[Reporter Li Rongping/Taoyuan Report] Taoyuan City Government Water Affairs Bureau strives for the central government's forward-looking infrastructure design and water environment construction - the county and city manages the overall improvement plan for rivers and regional drainage to subsidize the remediation of Shezi Creek, which was approved by the Ministry of Economic Affairs in 2018. "Shezixi Aihe Bridge to the Old Hotel Bridge Treatment Project", with a total cost of 161.32 million yuan, will be approved to handle the "Shezixi Yuemei Bridge to Ci'en Bridge Treatment Project" in 2020, with a total cost of 270.65 million yuan, After completing the land acquisition operation, the groundbreaking ceremony will be held on the afternoon of this (29) day, and the construction is expected to be completed in September next year.

Mayor Zheng Wencan attended the groundbreaking ceremony and said that Shezixi is the most important river from Yangmei to Xinwu. The city government will handle the river management project in two stages. The "Aihe Bridge" to "Old Hotel Bridge" section started in February 2020. The 772-meter right bank revetment and water defense road will be completed this month. The "Yuemei Bridge" to "Ci'en Bridge" section, which started construction today, will complete another 1,139 meters of right bank revetment and water defense road, plus the water defense road completed in 2015. A total of 3.3 kilometers of water defense roads between Yuemei Bridge and Old Hotel Bridge will be completely connected, which can achieve the three goals of river defense safety, convenient transportation, and reconstruction of river bank landscape, and provide villagers with a river bank corridor for water-friendly recreation.

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Liu Zhenyu, director of water affairs, also said that the revetment project from the downstream of "Yuemei Bridge" to the right bank of "Ci'en Bridge" will improve the flood passage of the Shezixi River section, raise the top of the embankment to the 50-year flood protection standard, and reduce the risk of flooding. The renovation project adopts ecological construction method and multi-level design to create a three-dimensional and beautiful river bank, and reserve fish nests in the river bed so that the ecology of fish, birds and aquatic plants can be restored. In addition, a hydrophilic landscape is created on the top of the river bank embankment, and plants and trails are added. The 8-meter-wide water-proof road can be used as a general road, making the traffic outside the urban area smoother.

Including Yang Renjie, director of the Second River Bureau of the Water Resources Administration of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Qiu Shiyuan, the head of Yangmei District, Huang Shijie, a legislator, Li Jiaxing, Zhou Yuqin, Tu Quanji, and Zheng Shufang, a city councillor, all attended the groundbreaking ceremony.

The current situation of the right bank from Yuemei Bridge to Ci'en Bridge in Shezixi.

(Photo by reporter Li Rongping)

The Water Affairs Bureau briefed on the future completion mock-up of the "Shezixi Aihe Bridge to the Old Hotel Bridge Remediation Project".

(provided by the Water Authority)

The Water Affairs Bureau briefed on the future completion mock-up of the "Shezixi Aihe Bridge to the Old Hotel Bridge Remediation Project".

(provided by the Water Authority)

Caption: A briefing by the Water Affairs Bureau introduces the future completion mock-up of the "Shezixi Aihe Bridge to the Old Hotel Bridge Improvement Project".

(provided by the Water Authority)