No use could be found for the silt, and because of the difficulty of acquiring new land, in June of this year, after the 14 silt dumps which had been built at a cost of NT $ 700 million were full, the battle between humans and silt came to a decisive end as the weary human troops withdrew and the dredging machines fell silent.
砂石無法利用，等花七億元蓋的十四個貯砂池填滿，土地取得困難，今年六月，人與砂的戰爭，勝負分曉，抽砂作業暫告停工。