千湖縣台地蓋機場，航向世界從桃園
An Airport on the Highland with A Thousand Lakes, Taoyuan is the Door to the World
桃園機場站 Taoyuan Airport Station
1973年起，國內空運需求快速發展，臺北松山機場因無法擴建已不敷使用，另於桃園興建國際機場，機場所在的桃園台地，因無大河流經，農業灌溉水源缺乏，於是 挖池儲水，形成陂塘遍佈的景象，最高曾有一萬個。在石門水庫完成，桃園、石門大圳陸續開鑿，加上當地工業及儲運業發展，陂塘也陸續消失中。
In 1973, the need for transportation by air grew rapidly. Taipei Songshan Airport was unable to meet the demand, so an international airport was built in Taoyuan. There is no river running through the Taoyuan highland, where the airport was built, so huge cavities were dug to store water, and they can be seen all over the place. At its highest point, there were 10,000 of these ponds. As the Shihmen Dam was completed, and construction began on Taoyuan and Shihmen canals, coupled with industrial and storage/transportation industries, these ponds started to disappear.
