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Shihmen Reservoir 60th Anniversary Commemorative Issue

  • Updated on:113/06/05
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First day of issue: June 6, 2024
Sheet composition: 20 ( 4 × 5 )
Paper used: Phosphorescent stamp paper
Designer: Highlight Creative Co., Ltd.
Printer: Cardon Enterprise Co., Ltd.
Stamp size: 50 × 30 (mm)
Color: Colorful
Process: Offset
Perforation: 12½ × 13½

The Shihmen Reservoir was the most important hydraulic engineering work of the 1960s. It began operating sixty years ago, in 1964. To ensure proper functioning it has been adjusted and expanded many times. In addition to the Sluicing Tunnel, the Amuping Desilting Tunnel, completed in 2023, can rapidly remove silt, whilst the Zhongzhuang Auxiliary Lake serves as an excess reservoir in times of typhoon floods, stabilizing the water supply.
To increase citizens' understanding of Shihmen Reservoir and their appreciation of water resources and the need to protect them, Chunghwa Post has issued a set of two commemorative stamps. A description of the stamps follows:
1. NT$8 stamp: A bird's eye view of Shihmen Reservoir: The Reservoir supplies water to Taoyuan City and parts of New Taipei City and parts of Hsinchu County and City. It also has other uses: preventing flooding, power generation and serving tourism and irrigation.
2. NT$35 stamp: The white water from the surface is the discharge. The Spillway is the main means of discharging flood water. This guarantees the safety of the dam during typhoons, whilst from the bottom the Sluicing Tunnel ensures the discharge of silt thus reducing accumulation of silt and extending the life of the reservoir.

By-issues:
(1) First Day Cover (195 mm × 120 mm): NT$3 apiece
(2) Folder (with or without mount): NT$8 apiece
(3) Loose-leaf album page: NT$8 apiece
(4) Pre-cancelled FDC affixed with one NT$8-denominated stamp: NT$11 apiece
(5) Pre-cancelled FDC affixed with a full set of stamps: NT$46 apiece

To purchase the relative philatelic products, please go directly to the post office branches, Postal Museum or order on line at https://stamp.post.gov.tw.

Cachet: A commemorative cachet will be available on the issuing date of the stamps. For further information about the locations of commemorative cachets, please refer to our website at http://www.post.gov.tw.