Major waterways throughout country being efficiently managed

 

 

NONG KHAI, 7 August 2018 (NNT) – Sluice gates along Nong Khai’s major waterways, Huay Luang and Huay Mong, have remained closed to allow for drainage of the heightened Mekong River with 14 water pumps now setup to speed up the process. 

The four districts along the Mekong River in Bueng Kan have reported a drop in its water level despite floods still persisting in some low lying areas. The Songkram River level, however, has risen by eight centimeters in the area of Baan Santisuk in Porncharoen district, which has yet to suffer any flooding. 

Hundreds of hectares of farmland in the Baan Na Non area of Bueng Kan sub-district have been submerged for over a week now with damages currently being assessed. 

The Chao Phraya River has yet to become a cause for concern due to management of the Nan River, Ping River and Bhumibol Dam in Tak province. Chao Phraya Dam’s release rate is currently 300 million cubic meters per second but this may be increased to 500 million cubic meters per second later this week, which would trigger a notification to provinces in the Chao Phraya River basin that may be hit by flooding. At-risk areas will be assessed and releases will be timed to allow for proper assistance.

 

-- nnt 2018-08-07

 

but who is managing the whims of the multiple string of hydro dams aways up there in China?

Edited August 7, 20187 yr by tifino

13 minutes ago, webfact said:

Major waterways throughout country being efficiently managed

Will tomorrow's headline be something like: "Massive Flooding Expected Nationwide"?

 

I'm only going on news articles just a few days ago when we where told there would be no flooding, followed by the next day telling people in Phetchaburi to move their possessions to higher ground.

 

26 minutes ago, webfact said:

The Chao Phraya River has yet to become a cause for concern due to management of the Nan River, Ping River and Bhumibol Dam in Tak province. 

Those rivers and dam are the real indicators whether there will be a massive flow of water heading towards Bangkok like in 2011. Reading the whole paragraph don’t give much confidence the junta has things under control. We are officially in the rainy seasons and there are warning of storms in the north. Get your rubber boats ready. 

"Major waterways throughout country being efficiently managed"

 

I'm building an Ark.

20 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Will tomorrow's headline be something like: "Massive Flooding Expected Nationwide"?

 

I'm only going on news articles just a few days ago when we where told there would be no flooding, followed by the next day telling people in Phetchaburi to move their possessions to higher ground.

 

Thats to avoid the "no flooding"

33 minutes ago, webfact said:

Major waterways throughout country being efficiently managed

Not so sure "efficiently managed" are the right choice of words. "Luckily managed" might be more appropriate.

Remembering that it is the PM who is in overall control of the Natural Water Resources Office I suspect there has been some heavy frog kissing going on and high quality amulets worn over recent days. 

 

 

18 minutes ago, Oziex1 said:

"Major waterways throughout country being efficiently managed"

 

I'm building an Ark.

I've got some timber you can have. It's mainly lengths of 2 x 2.

 

Which country are we referring to? If the Netherlands I totally understand and agree

Thailand.....Hub of efficient management!

1 minute ago, PatOngo said:

Thailand.....Hub of efficient management!

I see there's a woman in overall charge: Miss-Management.

 

Surely, even in Thailand this is impossible!

"Chao Phraya Dam’s release rate is currently 300 million cubic meters per second but this may be increased to 500 million cubic meters per second later this week."

Edited August 7, 20187 yr by Woodsie888

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47 minutes ago, Woodsie888 said:

Surely, even in Thailand this is impossible!

"Chao Phraya Dam’s release rate is currently 300 million cubic meters per second but this may be increased to 500 million cubic meters per second later this week."

Now stop questioning official figures like that. You're making the country and government look bad, talking it down that. You could well be today's PM punch in in the face recipient.

 

3 hours ago, bluesofa said:

Now stop questioning official figures like that. You're making the country and government look bad, talking it down that. You could well be today's PM punch in in the face recipient.

 

I want to go and view the ½ cubic kilometre per second water flow planned for later in the week.

It will be a spectacle of biblical proportions................hehe.

I'm in awe of their claimed capabilities.

Meanwhile, just as last time I guess I'll suffer the damage, albeit much more prepared.

 

29 minutes ago, Woodsie888 said:

I want to go and view the ½ cubic kilometre per second water flow planned for later in the week.

It will be a spectacle of biblical proportions................hehe.

I'm in awe of their claimed capabilities.

Meanwhile, just as last time I guess I'll suffer the damage, albeit much more prepared.

 

The press release was aimed for Thai consumption only,  not for educated Farang with a modicum of common sense. And given that the Banqiao Dam diaster in China caused a wave of 3 to 7 meters high, kilometers wide when it collapsed ,  and the total dams reservoir in total was roughly  the same volume of water as they will be releasing in a second here,  then biblical proportions is an understatement

Edited August 7, 20187 yr by Esso49

17 hours ago, bluesofa said:

I've got some timber you can have. It's mainly lengths of 2 x 2.

 

Nice one Blue......Very dry......

17 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

Those rivers and dam are the real indicators whether there will be a massive flow of water heading towards Bangkok like in 2011. Reading the whole paragraph don’t give much confidence the junta has things under control. We are officially in the rainy seasons and there are warning of storms in the north. Get your rubber boats ready. 

If they do increase the flow now.. that would be good because they can still drain, not yet the high tides. I hope they learned from 2011 when they drained too late. So i hope the maybe will be a yes we will increase the outflow.

12 hours ago, Esso49 said:

The press release was aimed for Thai consumption only,  not for educated Farang with a modicum of common sense. And given that the Banqiao Dam diaster in China caused a wave of 3 to 7 meters high, kilometers wide when it collapsed ,  and the total dams reservoir in total was roughly  the same volume of water as they will be releasing in a second here,  then biblical proportions is an understatement

 

The press release was, I am sure, in Thai.  I'd bet dollars to donuts it was accurate, and there has been a translation error between the Thai press release and what we are reading.

 

Getting units translated correctly is hard- and often screwed up in even the best Western press by non-technical reporters.  Throw in spell checker debacles we've all experienced, and it's even more likely to be an error in reporting the press release than the press release itself.   Is it CM/Sec, Liters/Sec, CM/day, or some other units?

 

To claim that it's lack of common sense on the part of the locals says more about the posters here on TVF than it says about the locals, or the competence of the Thai technical people who do a pretty challenging job within a thoroughly corrupt system where keeping one location dry often comes at the expense of allowing other locations to flood. 

 

We'll never know what goes on behind closed doors, or how those decisions are made.

 

Edited August 8, 20187 yr by impulse

On 8/7/2018 at 10:44 AM, Eric Loh said:

Those rivers and dam are the real indicators whether there will be a massive flow of water heading towards Bangkok like in 2011. Reading the whole paragraph don’t give much confidence the junta has things under control. We are officially in the rainy seasons and there are warning of storms in the north. Get your rubber boats ready. 

It's not surprising for me that a uneducated soldier can't tackle the expected floodings year by year as there is nothing what he managed successfully so far. 

Yes, biblical ..... only about 666,0000 times the Chao Phraya's usual flow. Guess time to flee Bangkok now!

 

No wonder they got the calculations wrong in 2011, with Thai class mathematicians in charge!