Phetchaburi residents warned of 1-2 months of flooding

 

 

People in Phetchaburi province, especially in Muang district, have been warned that they might have to endure flooding for up to 1-2 months.

 

National Water Resources Office secretary-general Somkiart Prachamwong said Saturday that the Kaeng Krachan dam was expected to be filled up to its full capacity in the next 10 hours and then the excess water would spill over the spillways estimated at about 300 cubic metre/second and flow into Phetchaburi dam before it would hit Muang district at about noon on Monday.

 

The overflow from the dam will push up the water in the Phetchaburi river in the Muang district to a level about 50 centimetres higher than the level recorded in 2016.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/phetchaburi-residents-warned-of-1-2-months-of-flooding/

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2018-08-05

So because water management in this country sucks, the peasants will just have to endure 1-2 months of soggy feet...

But they will just carry on with the Mai Pen Rai, while the fat boys reshuffle their military pecking order so everyone gets fatter...

By judging out of this very beautiful picture. I just must be a pure genius that established and layed the gound for the electric plant in direct connection to the river. Hat of for intelligence beyond imagination.

15 minutes ago, Get Real said:

By judging out of this very beautiful picture. I just must be a pure genius that established and layed the gound for the electric plant in direct connection to the river. Hat of for intelligence beyond imagination.

could be worse culd be a "NUKLEA reacta" right  next to the sea in a known Tsunami area

3 hours ago, Get Real said:

By judging out of this very beautiful picture. I just must be a pure genius that established and layed the gound for the electric plant in direct connection to the river. Hat of for intelligence beyond imagination.

I agree. 

 I look at the picture and see what I think is all the electric power down low but to the bottom right there are buildings way up on cement posts. I quess when it floods the boss's will want a place to sit when they view the damage.

4 hours ago, Get Real said:

By judging out of this very beautiful picture. I just must be a pure genius that established and layed the gound for the electric plant in direct connection to the river. Hat of for intelligence beyond imagination.

Not a uniquely Thai situation by any stretch of the imagination.

 

I was visiting family in Lancaster late 2015 when Storm Desmond, the first named storm of the new British storm tracking system dumped its guts in the hills. Five days to get power restored. All the backup power systems on all the mobile phone towers had also given up the ghost after 3 days.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-35020049

 

 

 

6 hours ago, Get Real said:

By judging out of this very beautiful picture. I just must be a pure genius that established and layed the gound for the electric plant in direct connection to the river. Hat of for intelligence beyond imagination.

i could be wrong but I have been to this dam many times and there is a small hydro electric plant at the base of the dam. 

they are generating electricity.

what you are looking at is the spillway after the water leaves the hydro electric plant.

 

https://goo.gl/maps/8jMXM1HWEH42

 

I remember the last flooding there, a year or so ago. The entire central area was under 50cm. to 100cm of water for days. The major north south highway was only open to large trucks. One had to take a long detour through town, and even then the water flooded my car. Amazing that nothing has been done to correct this issue. Nothing. Where has all that money gone? Governor. Are you there? Are you working? Do you care? What are you doing with all of that cash? 

2 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

I remember the last flooding there, a year or so ago. The entire central area was under 50cm. to 100cm of water for days. The major north south highway was only open to large trucks. One had to take a long detour through town, and even then the water flooded my car. Amazing that nothing has been done to correct this issue. Nothing. Where has all that money gone? Governor. Are you there? Are you working? Do you care? What are you doing with all of that cash? 

yes the highway around the Robertson Mall in the city of Phetchaburi was flooded for days. Not important as it is the major highway link to the south.

On 8/5/2018 at 1:24 PM, NCC1701A said:

yes the highway around the Robertson Mall in the city of Phetchaburi was flooded for days. Not important as it is the major highway link to the south.

Blame the governor. The super corrupt Governor Chatporn Ratsadudee is the governor. This is a wealthy province. There is plenty of money to address the flooding issues. The responsibility rest squarely on this mans shoulders, assuming he is still governor. Just another incompetent. 

34 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

they are generating electricity.

Seriously? Are you sure? 

“Water Management sucks”? Mangement of anything would be more apt!

 

 

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42 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

I remember the last flooding there, a year or so ago. The entire central area was under 50cm. to 100cm of water for days. The major north south highway was only open to large trucks. One had to take a long detour through town, and even then the water flooded my car. Amazing that nothing has been done to correct this issue. Nothing. Where has all that money gone? Governor. Are you there? Are you working? Do you care? What are you doing with all of that cash? 

You know and I know where the money has gone.   That is the reason why there is no water long term successful management.   The only management is the management of corruption by skimming off vast sums of money that should have been invested in infrastructure to the benefit of the the general populace.  Of course this and successive governments since 2006 have little interest whatsoever in helping the general populace.  So flooding will continue with lip service being paid from the top down to the less fortunate in Thai society who have to bear the brunt of this.

20 minutes ago, Get Real said:

Seriously? Are you sure? 

 

Phetchaburi braces for water release from upstream dam

By The Nation

 

 

The Public Health Ministry has instructed hospitals in downstream areas that will be affected by the release of water from dams to move their medical supplies and equipment to higher ground and take measures to tackle possible flooding of their premises.

 

 

The ministry’s permanent secretary Dr Jessada Chokdamrongsuk said yesterday that he has instructed the Public Health Emergency Operations Centre to keep a close watch on the state of the dams, and tell at-risk hospitals to take the following steps: 

 

1. Move medicines, medical supplies and equipment as well as generators to higher ground;

 

2. Prevent flooding of the premises by piling up sandbags and installing water pumps; 

 

3. Keep medication, supplies and oxygen tanks ready as well as prepare first-aid kits; 

 

4. Survey and formulate a plan to take care of bed-ridden patients, pregnant women and ailing elderly persons under the hospital’s jurisdiction; 

 

5. Have mobile medical teams on standby and coordinate with related agencies to provide a safe shelter in case floods block hospital entrances. 

 

Residents of Petchburi’s Muang district are braced for the impact of water being released from the upstream Kaeng Krachan dam on Sunday afternoon. This could submerge the Muang district as well as communities in Kaeng Krajan, Tha Yang, Ban Lat and Ban Laem districts. 

 

Jessada said he has instructed all public health offices, especially the Phetchaburi Public Health Office and the King Mongkut Memorial Hospital, to pile up sandbags and have water pumps at the ready. Four-wheel-drive vehicles and 20,000 sets of medical supplies for flood victims have also been prepared, he said. 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30351487

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-08-06

The reactive officialdom of Thailand ! Proactive means spending money which could go to other places..... guess where?


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19 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

I remember the last flooding there, a year or so ago. The entire central area was under 50cm. to 100cm of water for days. The major north south highway was only open to large trucks. One had to take a long detour through town, and even then the water flooded my car. Amazing that nothing has been done to correct this issue. Nothing. Where has all that money gone? Governor. Are you there? Are you working? Do you care? What are you doing with all of that cash? 

Spot on,  I had the same experience,  it was a joke.  And there's no end in sight!!

RID say ther will be no flooding

13 hours ago, webfact said:

1. Move medicines, medical supplies and equipment as well as generators to higher ground;

 

2. Prevent flooding of the premises by piling up sandbags and installing water pumps; 

 

3. Keep medication, supplies and oxygen tanks ready as well as prepare first-aid kits; 

 

4. Survey and formulate a plan to take care of bed-ridden patients, pregnant women and ailing elderly persons under the hospital’s jurisdiction; 

 

5. Have mobile medical teams on standby and coordinate with related agencies to provide a safe shelter in case floods block hospital entrances.

6. Properly manage water resources so flooding does not occur. 

 

7. If When flooding occurs, hold incompetent officials accountable.  

On 8/5/2018 at 6:48 AM, Get Real said:

By judging out of this very beautiful picture. I just must be a pure genius that established and layed the gound for the electric plant in direct connection to the river. Hat of for intelligence beyond imagination.

 

I'm always astounded by the way people can do an engineering analysis from one grainy photo shot at an angle where the perspective is totally out of kilter.

 

8 hours ago, impulse said:

 

I'm always astounded by the way people can do an engineering analysis from one grainy photo shot at an angle where the perspective is totally out of kilter.

 

Thanks! Nice that I could do something for you.