On the downstream portion of the Chingshui River, the main town in that area--Yuli--is threatened with flooding. But besides Yuli, the 100 household Bunun aboriginal village of Chingshui, in Chuohsi Rural Township, the location where the Chingshui River emerges from the mountains, also frequently has been endangered by the Chingshui River because of problems which have periodically cropped up with the Chingshui Dike in recent years.
清水溪下游除了最重要的市鎮玉里遭受水患威脅；位在清水溪出山處的聚落﹘﹘卓溪鄉卓清村清水部落﹘ ﹘一百多戶布農族山胞，也因為過去幾年「清水堤防」時出狀況，頻受清水溪危害。