Though residents have been known to drive away proposed garbage dumps, a dump that no one wants wasn't about to drive away a sacred old tree. And so the county government had no choice but to scale back on the size of the planned dump, placing the white fig tree outside of it. Fearing that the workers might damage the tree, residents would come by occasionally to check on construction.
只有聽說垃圾場被驅逐的，沒聽說垃圾場也要「乞丐趕廟公」的，縣府環保局只得縮小垃圾場施工範圍，以免傷害白榕，施工時，當地人怕工程傷害到樹，還不時來監工。