In 2000, a group of local teachers, civil servants, telephone company workers, and environmental activists formed the Chihtan Development Association, working with the local community to develop a consensus and begin to give voice to the residents. The hope was to be able to reconstitute the original character of the Tapo wetlands.
民國 89 年，一群在地的老師、公務人員、電信局職員、環保人士組成「池潭源流協進會」，並連結地方社團凝聚共識，開始展現民眾的聲音，希望能重新恢復大坡池沼澤濕地的特性。