曾文水庫建設過程與對榮工發展的影響

Influence of Tsen-Wen Reservoir Construction Project on RSEA Engineering Corporation

曾文水庫乃政府於石門水庫建設完工後所施行的臺灣第2座大規模綜合水利開發建設計畫。這項集農業灌溉、防洪、公共給水與水力發電於一身的水庫建設計畫，除對臺灣南部的農業發展與水資源開發利用具有相當貢獻外，對於臺灣大壩工程技術的茁壯與發展更是功不可沒，不但藉此培養與建立我國自主壩工設計與施工專才，也讓正值草創期的榮工因而獲得政府的大力扶植與培養，進而迅速茁壯發展，並逐步朝世界級營建機構之路邁進，極具時代意義與價值。本文即透過「檔案管理局」典藏榮工曾文水庫工程相關行政檔案作為撰文的主要參考引用資料，同時參照相關單位出版專書及相關文章、回憶錄等文獻，以計畫性之人員借調流用與培植訓練角度，從而探討曾文水庫建設施行期間，我國現代壩工技術如何逐步傳承與自立發展的過程，以及榮民工程處何以因此大幅提升整體營建技術能力的原因。期能藉此瞭解曾文水庫建設與臺灣二次大戰後築壩工程技術發展的脈絡關係，以及其對於榮工營建事業體發展的影響與意義。

Tsen-wen reservoir was the second large-scale developing project of water conservancy infrastructure after the completion of Shimen reservoir in Taiwan. The functions of this water reservoir construction project consist of agricultural irrigation, flood prevention, public water supply and hydroelectric power. Not only does the project contribute a lot to agricultural development and water resource exploitation in southern Taiwan, but also the technology development of large scaled dam construction in Taiwan. According to this project, the capability of autonomy design and expertise on large dam construction was established. It also benefited those labors in the pioneer period who had received support and training from government, therefore RSEA (Ret-Ser Engineering Agency) was capable of growing and developing rapidly. It was valuable and era-defining that this project helped RSEA Corporation in construction technologies become a world-class construction company. This study is based on many administrative records of Tsen-Wen reservoir construction collected by National Archives Administration. Additionally, this article also refers to related books, articles, memoirs and research, which is written from the perspective as one of the project member being received related training worked for various units of this project. This article attempted to present the growth of construction technology of Taiwan in modern large dams progressed gradually during the project execution. Furthermore, how RSEA could upgrade whole-scale construction technology tremendously was explored in this paper. Readers may understand the profound relations between the construction of Tsen-wen reservoir and Taiwan's large-dam construction technology after the Word war II and its impact and significance on the RSEA by reading this article.