Tsou Chen-ming, principal of Taoyuan's Chunghsing Elementary School, says that in his boyhood, before the Shihmen Reservoir existed, in the dry season Taoyuan people often had to pray for rain. But the reservoir released them from the scourge of water shortages in the dry summer.
桃園中興國小校長鄒振明表示，他小時候，還沒有石門水庫，到了旱季，桃園常常須要舉行祈雨儀式，石門水庫蓄水後，桃園夏季缺水的夢魘也消失了。