The head of the team, Wang Chao-yi, points out that the high quality pebbles found underground in the Kuanyin alluvial plain have been disastrous as idle farmland has drawn illegal gravel mining, and the gravel pits have then been used as landfills, leaving behind a ravaged landscape.
看到問題的嚴重性，民國八十二年，觀音地方上一些關心環保問題的人士組成「觀音文化工作陣」，開始投入心力拯救滿目瘡痍的鄉土。