He recalls that twenty or thirty years ago local children would chase the myriad "water birds on the river, but in the past decade farming has come to the flood plain and development is extending even to the river bed ..., transforming the river's ecology out of all recognition.
他回憶，二、三十年前，附近小孩最愛在溪邊追逐成千上百的水鳥；但最近十幾年來，農耕地不斷擴展，河川地被墾殖，如今開發的觸角更延伸入河床，溪流生態體系已完全兩樣。