When the construction work started in 1974, Hung Bin-ling, then head of the first engineering department of the Taiwan Provincial Water Conservancy Bureau, was put in overall charge of the engineers appointed to do the work.
台灣省水利局早有在大甲溪下游興建水壩之議，到民國 63 年時開始正式付諸實行。當時洪炳麟擔任台灣省水利局第一工程處處長，由他來負責所有的籌劃與施工事宜。