At the end of 2001, the landlord went so far as to use an excavator to take sediment from the lake and form earthen dykes, and he told outsiders that there were no species in the lake that needed to be conserved.
2001 年底，地主甚至動用挖土機，挖取埤底的沈積層來築土堤，並對外揚言埤中並無「需保育」物種。