저수지가 있는 곳은 대부분 한자로 방지(防池)라고 표기하였으나, 일제 강점기에 마을 이름을 표기하면서 방지(芳旨)라고 했다.
Most of the reservoirs were written as Bangji in Chinese characters, but the name of the village was changed to Bangji during the Japanese colonial period.