Although some scholars disagreed-arguing instead that the unusually large amount of rain and the natural steepness of surrounding slopes had caused even primeval forest to collapse-the debate again drew attention to excessive land use in the mountains, especially for orchards, which have expanded rapidly in recent years. Everywhere people wondered if it was worth losing a reservoir just so we can have peaches from Mt.
儘管也有學者指出雨量太大、坡地太陡，導致許多原始林崩塌，是水質混濁的主因，但是集水區土地超限利用問題，再度指向近年大幅成長的山區果園，「為拉拉山水蜜桃，毀掉一座水庫，值得嗎？」