Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-07-17
After Typhoon Maria brought heavy rain to northern Taiwan last week, the central
President Tsai Ing-wen (front, right) visits Yuanlin Park in Changhua County Monday. (Photo by CNA)
county of Changhua is leading the way in showing how to avoid flooding in urban areas.
President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday paid a visit to Yuanlin Park in Changhua County. The park, designed as a retention basin, opened in January and has already proven its value, preventing flooding in the surrounding area amid heavy rain earlier this month.
The park covers an area of 2.5 hectares and its basin is able to hold up to 30,000 cubic meters of water – or 12 and a half Olympic swimming pools – and can drain the water out in under two hours. It was built at a cost of nearly US$6 million.
President Tsai hailed the park as one of a number of successful environmental projects overseen by Changhua County magistrate Wei Ming-ku. These also include installing solar panels on close to 200 schools in the county and developing offshore wind power. The county already accounts for more than half of Taiwan’s wind farms. [FULL STORY]
