In addition, the Ministry of Economic Affairs shunted water from the Panhsin water treatment plant to help the Taoyuan area, and instituted an emergency project to set up temporary pumping stations on the reservoir after-bay, to pull off the relatively clean surface water and move it forward to the Shihmen main channel, and from there to the Pingchen treatment plant, completing within a few days a project that would ordinarily have taken months.
另一方面，經濟部抽調台北縣板新淨水廠供水支援桃園地區，並緊急進行在石門水庫後池架設臨時抽水站的工程，抽取水庫上層較乾淨的原水到石門大圳，再送往平鎮淨水廠，將原先需要耗費幾個月的工程倉促趕在幾天內完工。