《宋史·列传·卷五十四》
谢绛上奏请求批准重新修复此工程，说它可以免除州内人民每年的徭役，将水给予百姓，但未修成他就去世，年仅四十六岁。
请复修之，可罢州人岁役，以水与民，未就而卒，年四十六。
Xie Jiang requested approval in a memorial to renovate this project, saying that it could relieve the people of the prefecture of their annual corvee labor, and provide water for the people, but he died before the project was completed at the young age of 46.