The reservoir began filling with water in May 1963, but when Typhoon Gloria struck northwestern Taiwan in September of the same year, it washed 20 million cubic meters of silt into the new reservoir, equivalent to one-third of its silt capacity.
五十二年五月開始蓄水，同年九月葛樂禮颱風直撲台灣西北，淤砂陸續進入水庫兩千萬立方公呎，水庫淤積三分之一，生死簿上立刻減壽二十三年。