Record-high water inflow into Vajiralongkorn dam in 34 years

By Thai PBS

 

 

An accumulated amount of 3,325 million cubic metres of water have flowed into the Vajiralongkorn dam in Kanchanaburi province since the beginning of this year, making it the annual record high of water-inflow for 34 years.

 

In a report from a senior engineer based at the dam, Mr Thanasarn Thanawut, to the chief of Kanchanaburi Office of Public Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Office, Mr Arun Pinta, the water flow into the dam since July 19 until now had not receded, with 171 million cubic metres of water flowing in the dam on July 27 alone and it was expected that the same amount of water would have flowed into the dam on the following day.

 

As of Saturday, the dam was 77 percent full which was two metres above the control level, but the dam still has the capacity to receive another 2,056 million cubic metres of water.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/record-high-water-inflow-into-vajiralongkorn-dam-in-34-years/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2018-07-30

Strange thing Thai weather as we live in Kanchanaburi and have had no meaningful rainfall for the last month.

1 hour ago, edwinchester said:

Strange thing Thai weather as we live in Kanchanaburi and have had no meaningful rainfall for the last month.

Must be raining heavily only in the dam catchment areas and not downstream 

1 hour ago, Tradewind777 said:

Must be raining heavily only in the dam catchment areas and not downstream 

Yes, we live 30 km's north of Kan in the rice growing areas, flat as a pancake and the mountains are a distant view.....when they're not burning stubble.

On 7/30/2018 at 7:55 AM, Tradewind777 said:

Must be raining heavily only in the dam catchment areas and not downstream 

I go with that, We live near the Passak dam, in Lopburi when, we here of heavy rain/floods in Pechaboon Provence, 200 km away we know the dam will be filling up, very little local water flows into the dam.