An investigation was only begun after farmers took the initiative to request one. But the situation became one of taking samples here, but not taking samples next door; or of taking samples from two separate fields, without taking samples from the one in the middle. On neighboring fields drawing from the same irrigation system, farmers on one side had their fields declared contaminated, while those on the other passed untouched.
農民主動來申報的才檢測，變成這塊地採了樣，鄰近的地卻不採，兩邊的田採了，中間的又不採，在同一水路汲水灌溉的鄰地，你汙染了，我卻沒事。