Thailand Needs To Act As Bangkok Sinks Faster

[JetsetBkk]

Psst! Hey, Dr Anond Sanitwong, director of GISTDA, the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency - "Google is your friend":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_control_in_the_Netherlands

[avalonmick]

Or water views

What will this do for condo prices?

Depends if you fancy a basement or street view.

[britinthai]

What will this do for condo prices?

Not very good for the ground floor.

However all is not lost, as there may be the opportunity to entice tourist to Banvenice,

[cup-O-coffee]

What will this do for condo prices?

Just change the ad to read, "Single Level home with Multi-level Basement for Sale"

[avalonmick]

Is there a realistic way to correct this subsidence? And why is there a subsidence in the first place?

It's a swamp and always has been. There's no way to stop it - the ground is sinking AND ocean levels are rising. The average altitude of greater BKK is less than five metres above sea level.

An ocean rise of 50-100cm will wipe out most of samut prakarn and the southern part of BKK.

Nissan will become very attractive real estate.

[avalonmick]

What will this do for condo prices?

Just change the ad to read, "Single Level home with Multi-level Basement for Sale"

And indoor swimming pools.

[lungmi]

The cost of large scale water injection is about $1/bbl of water injected. Adding it up, 30 mm/year x 1,569 km2, a project like this will cost ~ $300 million/year.

Bangkok Metropolitan Region has a combined output of $149.39 billion, so it is only 0.2% of the city's economy.

Lets gets started.....

arithmetics is one of the weakest points of Thailand, specially of this gouvernment.

[3SoiDogNight]

So much paranoia with this topic.

Actually the area Bangkok sits has been sinking long before Bangkok was even build.

The Gulf of Thailand didn't even exist millions of years ago as the land was connected. The southern peninsula continues to break away and the Gulf of Thailand continues to expand northward as the southern peninsula pulls away.
Blaming civilization and oil companies does make for a good story though.

[Moruya]

^{There are countless examples of areas subsiding when oil or gas field are produces over a long period of time.}

^{Just do the opposite for Bangkok. Find a suitable formation 1-3,000 m below Bangkok, drill a couple of hundred wells and inject water over the next 30 years.}

Some cuttings reinjection into Bankok's morally depleted zones would work.

Alternatively some horizontal drilling might assist. I remember the days when it was live in the Star of Light bar

[loong]

It's obviously due to the additional weight of all the fat foreigners that live there

It makes a change to see an article that doesn't blame foreigners for the problem

[SteeleJoe]

Might go some way to explain why many Bangkokians have bought land in Nakorn Ratchsaima.

Believe it or not, some have bought land upcountry out of fear of the Big Tsunami that various fortune tellers and others have predicted...

[Thai at Heart]

So much paranoia with this topic.

Actually the area Bangkok sits has been sinking long before Bangkok was even build.

The Gulf of Thailand didn't even exist millions of years ago as the land was connected. The southern peninsula continues to break away and the Gulf of Thailand continues to expand northward as the southern peninsula pulls away.

Blaming civilization and oil companies does make for a good story though.

So much paranoia with this topic.

Actually the area Bangkok sits has been sinking long before Bangkok was even build.

The Gulf of Thailand didn't even exist millions of years ago as the land was connected. The southern peninsula continues to break away and the Gulf of Thailand continues to expand northward as the southern peninsula pulls away.

Blaming civilization and oil companies does make for a good story though.

WEll it's all relative. When it was a boggy marsh all those eons ago, and there was no one there, no one cared. We won't bother to ask how well it goes when you try to get millions of people to live in a flat flood plain. We get to see what happens every year in Bangladesh.

Don't talk about the South breaking away, that's a touchy subject. lol

Edited May 2, 2013 by Thai at Heart

[stevehaigh]

buy beach front land in Korat while its still cheap

[Moruya]

So much paranoia with this topic.

Actually the area Bangkok sits has been sinking long before Bangkok was even build.

The Gulf of Thailand didn't even exist millions of years ago as the land was connected. The southern peninsula continues to break away and the Gulf of Thailand continues to expand northward as the southern peninsula pulls away.

Blaming civilization and oil companies does make for a good story though.

The oil field comments were to draw a similarity with what needs to be done with the reservoirs once the oil/gas have been removed to support the formation above as the pressure that was supporting it has now gone.

[h5kaf]

Not sure what they problem is. Weren't we told a couple of months ago the Bangkok barrage would be in place in a few years?

Not much point in an underwater barrage.

[Naroge]

The figures seem exaggerated to me, at least for big buildings. What I have seen in central Bangkok (Rama IV, Sukhumvit, Silom etc) over the years is more like 1 cm/year. The big buildings have deep piling preventing them from major sinking. But you can normally see how the roads and general areas around the buildings are sinking. Local variances are definitely present.

[GentlemanJim]

The Goverment are acting already! They are preparing Chang Mai to be capital and throne of the Shinawatra dynasty.

[h5kaf]

Is there a realistic way to correct this subsidence? And why is there a subsidence in the first place?

It's a swamp and always has been. There's no way to stop it - the ground is sinking AND ocean levels are rising. The average altitude of greater BKK is less than five metres above sea level.

An ocean rise of 50-100cm will wipe out most of samut prakarn and the southern part of BKK.

Nissan will become very attractive real estate.

Not sure about "Nissan" but I do foresee the new big Boeing Aircraft being fitted with floats instead of wheels, and water taxi companies sprouting up everywhere. Bangkok the venice of South East Asia - now there's a thought. Also the rise of a whole new set of water based 'hubs'.

[TackyToo]

The hub of pole dancing becomes the hub of pile dancing- just a minor change...

[Angeledge777]

Crocodile dundee in Bangkok

[Locationthailand]

What will this do for condo prices?

Wazza, anything above 5 floors with a (waterfront) balcony will increase dramatically ... Bangkok - the Venice of the East.

[Pimay1]

It is all sort of 2014 isn't it.

Inevitably in 50 or so years, huge amonts of people will have to leave Bangkok because their properties will inevitably go under water quite regularly. What will they do if Bangkok isn't the all seeing all doing, centre point of everything in the country?

What will they do if Bangkok isn't the all seeing all doing, centre point of everything in the country universe?

[davejones]

What will this do for condo prices?

Decrease prices on lower floors, and increase prices on higher floors.

Anyway, sounds like things are improving. Three years ago there were only 7 years left to save Bangkok. Now there are 7-10 years left to save it. LOL.

This report was probably issued by some company that expects to profit from saving Bangkok.

[LuckyLew]

What will this do for condo prices?

They will sink soon

[LuckyLew]

Bring Thaksin back ... during the lat big floods he said that if Thailand bring him back he can solve all the water an flooding problems, And we all know what an upstanding great guy he is, a true man of his word who only cares about the people of Thailand.wink wink nudge nudge

[jaideecm]

Everyone is selling and moving to Chiang Mai. The boom here is incredable. Most of my Thai friends have bought houses and getting ready to move their businesses here. My wifes upscale coffee house and noodle restaurant is doing great, she has to open a second location.

Give us the cash, Love it

Randy

[Chicken George]

Oh dear more peeps moving uo North!

[Thai at Heart]

Everyone is selling and moving to Chiang Mai. The boom here is incredable. Most of my Thai friends have bought houses and getting ready to move their businesses here. My wifes upscale coffee house and noodle restaurant is doing great, she has to open a second location.

Give us the cash, Love it

Randy

Don't think you would want ALL of Bangkok up there. If that happened, everyone would be moaning and bitching about the traffic and the pollution and dying to move somewhere else.

Come to think of it, a lot of people in Chiangmai already are.

[DiamondKing]

^{There are countless examples of areas subsiding when oil or gas field are produces over a long period of time.}

^{Just do the opposite for Bangkok. Find a suitable formation 1-3,000 m below Bangkok, drill a couple of hundred wells and inject water over the next 30 years.}

Why water...they can get the PTP to below all their hot air in the ground..this should have the same effect...

And you can help them with all the HOT AIR your spouting too

[vijer]

Bangkok wanted to be the Venice of South East Asia!