According to Professor Hu Nien-tsu of Sun Yat-sen University, if the sea walls were removed, 1170 square kilometers of land in areas of excessive ground water extraction, equivalent to one tenth of Taiwan's flatlands, would go the way of Atlantis.
這也是中山大學教授胡念祖會說，若撤除海堤，佔台灣平地面積十分之一的超抽地下水地區，將會上演一齣「國土沈淪記」。