The money pit: The annual expenditure for repair and maintenance of dikes exceeds NT $ 10 billion. "One kilometer of dike takes NT $ 50-60 million, and that's really. expensive" says an engineer at the WCB. Extending his arm for comparison, he adds that it's impossible to calculate the number of one meter NT $ 100,000 tetrapods that get dumped in.
水利局每年修築與維護海堤的經費超過上百億，「一公里海堤就要五、六千萬，很貴的」，水利局一位工程師用手一比又說，一公尺將近十萬元的消波塊，每年消耗掉的數量更是無法計數。