Although the academic community frequently called for the lake to be turned into nature preserve, the area around Shuanglienpi had been designated as private land due to poor land policies in the early years after the ROC government relocated to Taiwan in 1949. The government had no effective way of controlling those who owned land there and preventing ecological damage.
雖然學界一直呼籲保存，但由於國民政府遷台初期錯誤的土地政策，雙連埤被劃為私有土地，以致政府單位始終無法有效約束地主，阻止地主對當地生態的破壞。