Flooding possible during high tides: Bangkok Administration

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Flooding possible during high tides: BMA
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has issued a warning to city residents and especially those living outside the city's flood barrier zone, that the Chao Phraya River will rise to two metres above mean sea level due to seasonal seawater inflows from October 15-17.

Deputy city clerk Sanya Cheenimit on Thursday inspected the Santichon Songkhro Community in the Bangkok Noi area and the 3.5-metre-high flood barrier along Chao Phraya River.

He also commented about Tuesday's flooding, which affected 400 homes in the community when water seeped through the 500-meter-long unfinished section of the flood barrier near Khlong Nam Tan sluice gate.

He said that the contractor had abandoned the construction and that the city would find the new contractor to complete the job by the end of this year.

As a short-term solution, the city was installing water pumps in the community and collecting garbage to ensure faster flood drainage, he added.

Sanya said eastern Bangkok was less likely be flooded because the northern runoffs had become stable, with dams releasing less water and rainfall started to ease.

However, riverside homes located outside the city's flood barrier zone could be affected by flooding as a result of the high tides between October 15 and 17, which would cause the river to rise two metres above mean sea level.


-- The Nation 2013-10-10

[Katipo]

"He said that the contractor had abandoned the construction and that the city would find the new contractor to complete the job by the end of this year."

What? Why? Another contract given to a friend of a friend who has no experience in doing what they were paid to do. Well at least everything got their money you can be sure.

[Barefoot]

This contractor abandonment problem, which happens constantly in this country, would be eliminated if construction/performance bonds were required for every project. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_bond

[SOTIRIOS]

.....I guess they will never be specific.....

....that way they can never be blamed or face reactions from the residents.....

....to omit is not a lie in Thailand......

....by now, they should be able to map out the possible water flow in any situation.....

....all the maps and charts I have seen are virtually useless....

....our problem at the end of the day....not theirs....

....they got the funding....the Thais will never see it again.....

(....ask the contractor what really happened in a recent case......maybe he didn't want to work for free......???)

[PeVee1st]

Apart from the missing contractor, it will now remain to be seen just how well the other levees have been built.

Is the 500m missing piece of levee going to let in major flooding to all areas?

[Bagwan]

Everybody looking north, meanwhile Neptune creeps in from the rear. Lateral vision was never a strong Thai attribute as we see every day on the roads, but lateral thought a very rare commodity.