Thai drainage work: Netizens divided over whether it works!

[webfact]

Picture: Daily News

 

Daily News reported on a Facebook post that showed some drainage work by a road.

 

There were some blue pipes leading out from somewhere with one end blocked. Later pictures showed them covered with concrete. 

 

The original poster - a man called Zack - described them as "Thor Thip" (heavenly pipes) and then there was a whole swathe of comments and 4,500 shares. 

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Opinion was divided on whether the drainage work would actually be efficacious. 

 

Some said there was method in the madness, others said there was only madness in the madness. 

 

We hope Thaivisa's army of structural engineers may be able to enlighten us. 

 

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[RotBenz8888]

15 minutes ago, webfact said:

We hope Thaivisa's army of structural engineers may be able to enlighten us.

You have to be Thai to fully understand this ingeniousness. 

[seajae]

they put a new road in near our house, it varies in distance from  around 25  to 50 metres from the lake/river  so you would expect the new drains to work, trouble is when it rains the road floods severely as the drains dont go anywhere, the culvits appear to be for show only. Still waiting for them to re surface the road coming into our streetwhere they opened it up  as it is still just sand that keeps getting replenished as it compacts down, again we see the corruption/graft in action with govt work

[hotchilli]

Its about budget saving, nothing new to see here.

[My POV]

They have been putting new drainage systems in nearly every year and have yet to get it right. Maybe someday they will actually do it right, but I'm not holding my breath.

[digger70]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

There were some blue pipes leading out from somewhere with one end blocked. Later pictures showed them covered with concrete. 

Bye the looks of that ,That will Never work if the one end with concrete on top doesn't go in to a drain.

It can only work if there's a Bend down in to a drain underneath  the surface.

[Justgrazing]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

 

There were some blue pipes leading out from somewhere with one end blocked. Later pictures showed them covered with concrete

 

It all went downhill after that then ..

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5 hours ago, webfact said:

 

Opinion was divided on whether the drainage work would actually be efficacious. 

 

Fast becoming a buzzword of 21 alongside mulling and bubble is efficaciousness .. might have been better to say it might or might not work though .. 

[Excel]

43 minutes ago, My POV said:

They have been putting new drainage systems in nearly every year and have yet to get it right. Maybe someday they will actually do it right, but I'm not holding my breath.

The biggest hurdle is overcoming that special piece of Thainess that haves them believe water runs uphill. ???????? Seriously I've worked with some brilliant Thai civils engineers but you have to remember that many minor projects are simply not engineered , just done because it seemed a good idea at the time.

[GreasyFingers]

Firstly: it will not work as the inlet pipes are below the concrete road.

Secondly: The inlet pipes will soon be filled with frogs, snakes and debris.

Thirdly: normally even Thais have a (sort of) kerb drainage system that would take much more water than those inlet pipes.

Fourthly: where do the inlet pipes run to, is there an outlet.

[Moonlover]

I think our village would win a prize for TUD, that's Totally Useless Drainage. 

 

They put in a new drainage ditch along the whole length of our road, but then, having nowhere else to put it, they laid the water mains in the ditch and put the covers on, thus reducing its capacity by around 50%.

 

They stopped short at that point without providing any run off for the water down to the river some 100 meters away, so now all that happens is that the ditch fills with water whenever it rains.

 

Last rainy season, for the 1st time in 6 years, we had an outbreak of dengue fever. Hardly surprising really with a 200 meter long mosquito breeding trough running through the middle of the village! I'm more concerned about dengue this year than I am about Covid.

[natway09]

You are never going to have drainage to stop flooding with a massive downpour in Bangkok when most of it is below or just above sea level.

The massive 2 year works in Soi 4, Nana Tai  certainly get rid of it a lot quicker than before

 

[mbenson]

8 hours ago, GreasyFingers said:

Firstly: it will not work as the inlet pipes are below the concrete road.

Secondly: The inlet pipes will soon be filled with frogs, snakes and debris.

Thirdly: normally even Thais have a (sort of) kerb drainage system that would take much more water than those inlet pipes.

Fourthly: where do the inlet pipes run to, is there an outlet.

There appears to be a clever illusion at work here. It appears that the pipes go into a connecting drainage pipe under the new concrete. However, there is no connecting drainage pipe under the concrete. We call this "belief-based engineering." The more that people believe it works the more likely it is to work. However, most Thais won't believe it, especially when they see the road flooding despite the new measures. LoL!

[mikebell]

13 hours ago, Moonlover said:

Last rainy season, for the 1st time in 6 years, we had an outbreak of dengue fever. Hardly surprising really with a 200 meter long mosquito breeding trough

Most Thai drainage systems appear to consist of breeding chambers which fill up and then the water feeds down the line to the next chamber.  Pools of stagnant water every ten metres - brilliant!

[Elkski]

Maybe they think it will soak down into the road base.  I saw this on IG.  

[rickudon]

In our village the road used to flood, sometimes 6 inches deep. Drainage was put in about 5 years ago - works great! The road doesn't flood at all, even DURING heavy downpours. It was all a hand made job, but they got it right.