In 1962, the government established Watarase-gawa River Committee in the Council of Water Quality and offered a compromise that they would accept the chairman of the Morita Village Association as a member of the official committee if he resigned as chairman of the association, however, at the beginning the members of the Morita Village Association strongly objected it thinking the government was trying to divide the local association.
1962年、水質審議会に渡良瀬川専門部会を設け、毛里田村期成同盟会会長が会長を辞職すれば、この会長を審議会委員に加えてよい、という内容の政治的な妥協がはかられたが、当初、毛里田村同盟会は同盟会の運動の分断を図ろうとするものだとして激しく抵抗した。