Concerns as Nan River in Phitsanulok climbs to record high

By The Nation

 

 

The Nan River in Phitsanulok's Muang district rose to the year's highest level of 7.73 metres on Tuesday.

 

Parts of the province’s Wang Thong and Bang Krathum districts are already flooded due to the overflowing Wang Thong River and Khlong Chompoo.

 

The Nan River rose to the record level and was flowing at 825 cubic metres per second at 5am and was three metres away from bursting its banks.

 

Provincial officials placed the Yom River basin on flood watch due to the year's largest volume of run-offs from upstream Phrae province.

 

The diversion of water into Khlong Mem on Tuesday and Wednesday will cause the inundation of riverside homes in Phrom Phiram, Muang and Bang Rakam districts, officials warned.

 

In Wang Thong's tambon Wang Pikul, floodwater had severely eroded a 10-metre section of the village road and inundated farmland.

 

Wang Pikul pig farm operators whose pigs drowned after the flood barrier bust on Monday were forced to sell the carcasses cheaply and moved their remaining pigs to higher ground.

 

One pig farmer, identified only as Montha, said she lost over half of her 280 pigs, with the surviving pigs kept in a temporarily-built enclosure on a road.

 

Her family is sleeping on the roadside as their one-storey home is flooded.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30327110

 

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This is a look at the Nan River (and trash)  creeping up and threatening one of the riverside homes in Phrom Phiram. Awhile back all the owners of these houses were told they have to move or their abodes would be torn down by the government.  None of these houses have a 'chanote'. In other words, all these places were built illegally on land owned by Thailand. I have seen many of these homes pop up in the last 10-15 years.

 

But after numerous meetings it was decided that these illegal houses could stay as long as the people living there pay rent to some government department...

Edited September 19, 20178 yr by missoura

It is not the record height, about 3 metres below the last big flood. So the headline is BS. 

1 minute ago, Artisi said:

It is not the record height, about 3 metres below the last big flood. So the headline is BS. 

True, as I have also seen the water much higher.

24 minutes ago, missoura said:

This is a look at the Nan River (and trash)  creeping up and threatening one of the riverside homes in Phrom Phiram. Awhile back all the owners of these houses were told they have to move or their abodes would be torn down by the government.  None of these houses have a 'chanote'. In other words, all these places were built illegally on land owned by Thailand. I have seen many of these homes pop up in the last 10-15 years.

 

But after numerous meetings it was decided that these illegal houses could stay as long as they pay rent to some government department...

Looks like the trash won't be out of place when it reaches bank height and mixes with all the crap and trash lying about around the house. 

8 minutes ago, Artisi said:

Looks like the trash won't be out of place when it reaches bank height and mixes with all the crap and trash lying about around the house. 

Not as bad as the trash in the Mekong. Hundreds of tons of it sweeping down every day.

18 minutes ago, Artisi said:

It is not the record height, about 3 metres below the last big flood. So the headline is BS. 

It states the years highest so far not record height.

 

2 hours ago, chainarong said:

It states the years highest so far not record height.

 

"........ climbs to record high." 

3 hours ago, Artisi said:

It is not the record height, about 3 metres below the last big flood. So the headline is BS. 

The first line of the OP was:

 

"The Nan River in Phitsanulok's Muang district rose to the year's highest level of 7.73 metres on Tuesday"

 

 I totally agree the headline is BS.............................. A little walk down memory lane to 2010 & 2011...................

 

 

The time-stamp on this was 2010. This was taken between the bridges, the building you can see on the right is the old immigration office in Phits.

 

 

2010 again, this picture was taken on the other side of the river. What makes this picture interesting is that the small riptide you can see behind the guy and dogs is the top of a 2 metre high wall that goes down to the jogging path. You can't see any of the lamp posts either................ 

 

The depth of water in the Nan at that time was much worse (by far) than the picture shown in the OP IMO.

 

 

Last picture was taken in August 2011 (just before it got really bad). Again jogging path fully submerged.

 

 

20 minutes ago, chrisinth said:

The first line of the OP was:

 

"The Nan River in Phitsanulok's Muang district rose to the year's highest level of 7.73 metres on Tuesday"

 

 I totally agree the headline is BS.............................. A little walk down memory lane to 2010 & 2011...................

 

 

The time-stamp on this was 2010. This was taken between the bridges, the building you can see on the right is the old immigration office in Phits.

 

 

2010 again, this picture was taken on the other side of the river. What makes this picture interesting is that the small riptide you can see behind the guy and dogs is the top of a 2 metre high wall that goes down to the jogging path. You can't see any of the lamp posts either................ 

 

The depth of water in the Nan at that time was much worse (by far) than the picture shown in the OP IMO.

 

 

Last picture was taken in August 2011 (just before it got really bad). Again jogging path fully submerged.

 

 

Yep, another few mm and the town would have been swimming. 

No worries. PM Prayut and his soldier boys have it all under control.

44 minutes ago, Cadbury said:

No worries. PM Prayut and his soldier boys have it all under control.

 

 Just like all the governments before them.

 

Until a government actually comes up with a plan and enforces it there will always be flooding in Thailand. It could be that many buildings and roads that have been illegally built will have to be torn down, that illegal logging has to be stopped, that many rich and influential people will lose money and land.

 

However I have not seen ANY politician of any coloured party who is big enough and powerful enough to take this task on and force it to happen.

 

It would be akin to painting a target on your back.