In addition, the Water Resources Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs, will declare a three-kilometer belt on each side of the high-speed railway line to be a groundwater control area. The bureau is also negotiating the reconstruction, sealing off, or relocation of 73 wells under the management of the Yunlin Irrigation Association and the Taiwan Sugar Corporation.
此外經濟部水利署也將著手公告高鐵沿線帶三公里範圍內為地下水管制區，並優先討論其中水利會及台糖所屬的七十三口水井的改建、填封及遷移。