After a new administration took over following the 2000 county chief executive and mayoral elections, with the support of former chief executive Hsu Ching-yuan and former Regional Planning and Development Department director Lu Wei-ping, the project to undo some of the construction around Tapo Lake that had begun five years before entered a new phase with the four-year Tapo Lake Restoration Project, which aimed to remove inappropriate facilities.
89 年縣市長改選，鄉政易主之後，在前任縣長徐慶元與前城鄉局局長盧維屏的大力支持下，5 年前，大坡池開始「走回頭路」，施行「減法」工程，展開為期 4 年的「大坡池環境復育工程」，以除去不當設施。