Ayutthaya still struggling after four months of flooding

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Ayutthaya still struggling after four months of flooding

By The Nation

 

About 500 families in Tambon Tha Din Daeng of Ayutthaya’s Phak Hai district, who have endured floods for more than four months, are in need of aid, especially portable toilets, said Natthaporn Mongkolroy, president of the tambon administrative organisation.

Floodwaters from the overflowing Noi River were stable on Thursday because the Royal Irrigation Department had decreased discharges into the Noi River by 50 cubic metres per second, but residents in eight affected villages were still having difficulties and using boats.

 

Many families had to evacuate to a temporary shelter at Wat Tha Din Daeng, where the tambon office provided food.

 

Suchat Nuanchawee, 60, said he had been unable to find odd jobs to support himself for the past four months, while floodwaters had reached the second floor of his house.

 

“Only 30 centimetres more and it would be at the same level as the devastating flood in 2011,” he said, urging aid, particularly food, drinking water and portable toilets.

 

Boonsom Khamsa-ard, 61, said the deep flooding had prevented her and fellow villagers from working and forced them to use inadequate toilet facilities. Her husband had also been bitten by a snake that had invaded their home.

 

She also asked for government aid, especially food.

 

Fisherman Suwan Phromrat, 68, said he had been unable to fish in the torrential floodwaters and was in need of food, drinking water and basic commodities.

 

Ayutthaya Governor Sujin Chaichumsak said the Central province’s nine districts were flooded, with Phak Hai, Sena, Bang Ban, Bang Sai, Bang Pahan and Muang Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya submerged for more than four months, affecting 55,851 households. Ten people have been killed in the province as a result of the flooding.

 

Sujin added that the province’s seven water-retention fields covering 553,339 rai (88,534 hectares) held 1.23 billion cubic metres of water, or 118.58 per cent of combined manageable capacity.

 

Officials were working hard to provide aid to affected people and survey the damage for remedial measures so people’s lives could return to normal as soon as possible, he said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30330648

 

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[Credo]

At what point does something cease being a flood and start being a lake?   4 months is a long time to be flooded.   

[Yme]

Sacrificed for a greater cause

 

[Dave67]

Water is still holding here in Sena. Never going to get into the house, but parts of the town are flooded and inaccessible

[IAMHERE]

Is there a dam holding the water back? Why isn't the water draining down river? Was the area always flooding in the past ; like from the 1500's to 1800's ?

[rkidlad]

Don’t worry. The PM is working 24/7 trying to solve this problem. He is in no way qualified in this field, and he doesn’t listen to others as he is top of the hierarchical structure, but he’s working tirelessly all the same. 

 

What’s that? Vendors arrested for overpriced lottery tickets? Sorry, Ayutthaya - the PM might now be preoccupied. 

[robblok]

2 hours ago, Dave67 said:

Water is still holding here in Sena. Never going to get into the house, but parts of the town are flooded and inaccessible

The strange part is that people downstream (as far as I know there are no dams between Ayutaya and Bangkok) are reporting lower water levels. If you look up Crossy his topic he lives on the river his values are only going down. Its strange that this is not the case here are these area's maybe in a water catchment area. You seem to live in the area maybe you could tell. 

[Dave67]

1 minute ago, robblok said:

The strange part is that people downstream (as far as I know there are no dams between Ayutaya and Bangkok) are reporting lower water levels. If you look up Crossy his topic he lives on the river his values are only going down. Its strange that this is not the case here are these area's maybe in a water catchment area. You seem to live in the area maybe you could tell. 

Yeah seems to be coming in faster than its going out, we live next to a tributary of the Krungsi river

[robblok]

31 minutes ago, Dave67 said:

Yeah seems to be coming in faster than its going out, we live next to a tributary of the Krungsi river

Something is slowing it down then and its not a dam, then the idea of the PM to build a canal near Ayuttaya is a good idea as it would increase the amount of water that can be drained though the river. 

[Dave67]

17 minutes ago, robblok said:

Something is slowing it down then and its not a dam, then the idea of the PM to build a canal near Ayuttaya is a good idea as it would increase the amount of water that can be drained though the river. 

Coming off of the tributary is a klong going down the side of the house the causeway is ankle deep but the road is 1 metre above and is dry. I think the Paddies are slowing down the flow they look like  huge lakes