Tseng Pan Ah-chu, a representative on Puli's township council, is doing her utmost to relocate these villages. She says that the township administration has already completed Kuotzu Lin's emergency run-off channel and improvement plan, and that work is underway to straighten the path of the river in Chiuchiung. Nonetheless, the threatened villages remain dangerous places to live.
埔里鎮民代表曾潘阿珠協助遷村居民不遺餘力，她指出，目前埔里鎮已經完成果子林河道的緊急疏濬與整治規劃，並將在九芎社區進行蛇籠工程，但危險村莊仍不適合居住，鎮公所打算以易地及徵收的方式協助災民遷村。