After ten years the loss of sand was limited and there was almost no need to compensate with other sand. However when the locality saw that the WCB was postponing building a dike, they destroyed the trees. "What the elected officials wanted was a concrete dike that you could see. That's the only thing that represented a political achievement to them.
歷經十年，沙源流失有限，幾乎沒有補過沙，但地方見水利局遲遲不做人工海堤，反破壞林投樹，「民意代表要的是看得見的水泥海堤，如此才代表有政績，水利局最後也只好為他們築人工堤」，林永德不諱言人工沙灘無疾而終的原因。