After the flooding brought on by Typhoon Lynn, the question asked most by legislators and the public was this: Dykes have been built all along the banks of the Tamsui River; why haven't they been built along the upper reaches of the Keelung?
琳恩颱風帶來的水患，最令民眾與民意代表非議的是：台北盆地淡水河沿岸都築了堤防，為何基隆河中、上游沒有築堤，造成沿岸的五堵、汐止、南港、內湖大水漫漫？