8.Landscape-Ownership Inspectation

Problem Encountered: The Farm Farm Irrigation Association cannot legally maintain irrigating lands,and it causes some flood prevention problems.

With the gradual administrative function of the Farm Irrigation Association, there are numerous lands deserted of no administrative management. The situation like water pollution and farming occupation becomes more common. What makes this situation happen? It is exactly because there is no effective cleaning and management available for irrigating lands, especially the urban ponds with irrigating function gradually decreased to none. Because the situation lacks the public right power and human labor, whenever the management attitude is passive but only waits for profit of land transaction, the lands will be certainly left to be deserted and silted. For example, the lands surrounding the Chiufanpi are littered with a vast amount of construction waste soil. This situation also invisibly results in the bottleneck of flood emission!

Solution: The Ownership Investigation on the Irrigating Lands along the River Bank

It is required to conduct thorough survey on important irrigating maps including the possession right and utilization about the river courses and both sides of river bank. The actual action should be firstly implemented with the general investigation and the land mapping data around the regions along the Caogong Canal must be made. The land owners should be listed. Within the process of general landscape-ownership investigation, it is also available to explore whether there is any space available for green belts and lands. To collect lands in coordination with the Farm Farm Irrigation Association, it is required to determine the land utilization by means of land preservation, administrative allot or authorized custody managed by governmental agencies, etc. The remapping plan for farming lands should be previously reserved with park lands for the usage of canal paths and pond hydrological systems to maintain excellent landscapes of water. The recommendable sites are described as below:

1. The canal section from the Chi Shan Canal adjacent to the Da Wan Junior High School downward to the Golden Lion Lake is urgently required aggressive effort on conservation to prevent from the land filling or canal interception caused by the remapping plans for private lands.
2. By focusing on currently remained ditches of the Caogong Canal on the regions of Kaohsiung City and County, the thorough landscape-ownership investigation must be implemented. Aside from major ditches, the branch ditches should be well kept with open channels.
   
   

The major reason for the lands of the Caogong Canal badly damaged and polluted is because the Farm Farm Irrigation Association has no actual legal power but confused power and responsibilities bothered. Thus, the environmental welfare for people is invisibly sacrificed. However, landscape-ownership investigation is exactly the first step for the re-conservation of the Caogong Canal. It is our belief that within the process of land survey, we can know more about the overall aspects of Caogong Canal. Thus, the agriculture resource can be sufficiently used and transformed into the environmental resource so that there will be more divergent values and functions specifically created.

Reflection

There had been so many beautiful natural landscapesfinally turning into deserted lands due to management ignorance. This situation results in the bottleneck obstacles to flood relief consequently. The reason why Caogong Canal is facing some consequences like this is because the Farm Irrigation Association of Kaohsiung is not governmentally authorized but situated under the confusion between responsibilities and duties. If everyone thoroughly knows about the real values and functions of the Caogong Canal, everyone would probably express more concerns on this canal and it will not be polluted at will or forgotten by people. Cherishing the Mother Nature and no pollution is exactly the aim for our effort.