Siaogang Workig Station       

Siaogang working station is located No.43, Gaofong Rd. , Siaogang District, Kaohsiung City 812, Taiwan . This magistracy is the main line of the old Caogong Canal in the Ch'ing Dynasty, called the Kaohsiung water conservancy in March of 1943, and establishing the surveillance. Till the May of 1948 turning into the Kaohsiung water conservancy committee, the surveillance became the working station after the irrigation working station.

This station administration district crosses over Kaohsiung County, city, including the Wanzihtou of Fongshan City, Guobizihduan, Cianjhencyu Taitangduan, Siaogangcyujichang, Jhongcuo, Gueilin, Siajhuang, Kongihai, Gaosong, Pingnan, Longfong, Shueiku, Dalinduan. Irrigating the east of district rises the Wanzihtou of Fongshan City, west to face the Taiwan Strait , north to the Fongshan river, south to the Siaogangcyu Fongbitou, the area accounts 294.17 hectares.


Siaogang Working Station is located in Siaogang District, Kaohsiung City .


Here is a three-floor building.




The water of Siaogang irrigating area is most from the surface water of Kaoping River . This station places a main chief in charge of all affairs, 4 employees, 4 sales assistants, total 9 people being responsible for the business working of the promotion managing water conservancy irrigation.

Concerning the business aspect that irrigates, this station governs in 2004 the 1st expecting to make the actual irrigation area 287.33 hectares, measure with the water physically 6601.651 cubic meters; plant the category: paddy rice 194.51 hectares, the sugar cane makes 92.82 hectares, pause 6.81 hectares. In 2004, the 2nd expect to make the actual irrigation area 284.79 hectares, measure with the water physically 3848.2563 cubic meters, plant the category: paddy rice 175.95 hectares, the sugar cane makes 108.84 hectares, pause 9.38 hectares. For the irrigation situation of order maintenance, according to the plan of Caogong Old Canal's standard with the water, decide the amount of water for the whole farmland and each stage of this farmland, consulting and deliberating the hydrology data to set up the irrigation project, reporting to conduct the project before a month of using the water and carrying out after the committee examining.

At the water conservancy facilities maintenance aspect, make use the time periodically dredge once after every the 2 nd expect make to break the water, check thoroughly every branch line system and equipments (water pump, penstock… etc.) in peacetime and every expect, discover the damage and repair instantly, strengthen to cruise tube in the period of a water using to keep smoothly. Besides, this station establishes a water-quality surveillance station and a factory excretion to supervise and control the sampling the examination. When the result is unsuited to the standard of the irrigation water, the committee sends a letter to the county government environmental protection bureau in Kaohsiung City to handle by law. Also we persuade people not to dump the garbage into the waterway and the periodical members clean away the garbage to safeguard the environmental sanitation.