Wanli Creek Barrier Lake Moves to Monitoring; Highway 7 Daman Section in Fuxing Remains Closed
Original Chinese title: 萬里溪堰塞湖改列監控；桃園復興台7線大曼路段仍封閉
As of 23:40 on September 10, the official national-forest disaster and barrier-lake monitoring system lists three barrier lakes under monitoring and zero under warning, including the 2026 Wanli Creek barrier lake in Hualien. The website status is therefore corrected from barrier-lake / red to barrier-lake / monitoring. The Highway 7 closure at 48.9K in Daman, Fuxing District, Taoyuan remains in effect and stays transport / watch, not red.
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23:40 Update: Wanli Creek Corrected from Red to Monitoring; Highway 7 in Fuxing Remains Closed
Information time: September 10, 2026, 23:40.
Official sources: Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency National Forest Disaster Response and Barrier Lake Monitoring System; Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency Hualien Branch; Directorate General of Highways; National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, including data from the Agency of Rural Development and Soil and Water Conservation, Water Resources Agency and transport authorities; Central Weather Administration; and Directorate-General of Personnel Administration.
Affected Indigenous areas and alert levels: The Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency's official barrier-lake monitoring system currently lists three barrier lakes under continuing monitoring, with zero under warning and three under monitoring. The list includes the 2026 Wanli Creek barrier lake in Hualien. Accordingly, the website's previous `barrier-lake / red` status, retained from the August 24 river-channel red alert, is now corrected to `barrier-lake / monitoring` based on the current official monitoring status. Wanli Creek and Wanrong Township should therefore no longer be displayed as red. Monitoring of the barrier lake, river channel and dam conditions continues under the Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency.
The Highway 7 Daman section at 48.9K in Fuxing District, Taoyuan, remains closed under the Directorate General of Highways' September 9 11:50 notice. The slope remains unstable with continued failures; inspections found an approximately 80-meter roadbed gap and damage to parts of the existing temporary crossing. Reopening is expected at 08:00 on September 17, subject to weather and slope stability. This remains `transport / watch`, not red.
Nationwide regional assessment: In the north, the Highway 7 interruption in Fuxing remains active; no new threshold-level change was identified for Wulai, Jianshi, Wufeng, Nanzhuang or Tai'an. In central Taiwan, no new heavy-rain advisory, severe thunderstorm alert, level-one inundation alert, debris-flow or large-scale-landslide escalation, road interruption, evacuation, work/class suspension or major public-service disruption was identified for Heping, Ren'ai, Xinyi or Alishan. In the south, no new threshold-level official change was identified for Tainan mountain areas; Taoyuan, Namaxia or Maolin in Kaohsiung; or Sandimen, Wutai, Majia, Taiwu, Laiyi, Chunri, Shizi or Mudan in Pingtung. In the east, no new threshold-level change was identified for Datong, Nan'ao, Xiulin, Wanrong, Zhuoxi, Beinan, Yanping, Haiduan, Daren, Jinfeng, Taimali, Dawu or Lanyu. After Wanli Creek is corrected to monitoring, there is no red alert in eastern Indigenous areas in this scan.
Other official alerts: The Central Weather Administration's current heavy-rain advisory page lists no active county. The National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction currently shows zero red and zero yellow debris-flow/large-scale-landslide alerts; its inundation section lists no administrative area under a level-one or level-two warning; and its transport interruption section continues to list the Highway 7 closure in Taoyuan. The Directorate-General of Personnel Administration's September 10 11:47 update reports work and classes as usual. This scan found no new official stream-surge notice, evacuation, sheltering, transport stoppage, major agricultural-loss alert, water/power interruption or other Indigenous-area public-service disruption.
Recommended action: The Highway 7 Daman section in Fuxing remains closed. For short-term travel between Taoyuan and Yilan, follow the highway authority's advice to use National Freeway 5 or Highway 9 and recheck official road information immediately before departure. Wanli Creek is now under monitoring rather than red alert, but do not enter unsafe riverbeds, construction areas or closed zones. Official real-time notices govern.
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This English translation is based on the Traditional Chinese emergency brief and official notices from the Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency, Directorate General of Highways, National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, Central Weather Administration, Water Resources Agency, Agency of Rural Development and Soil and Water Conservation, Directorate-General of Personnel Administration, and official local disaster-response sources. It does not replace official notices.