Some scholars suggested that silt dredged up from ports could be used to make manmade beach on the seriously eroded dike to the south of the harbor.
曾有學者建議，利用港口的淤沙在侵蝕嚴重的台中港南堤做人工沙灘，結果不久台中火力發電廠入主該地，人工沙灘也成泡影。