Thai flood: Prachin Buri 'unable to protect itself'

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Prachin Buri 'unable to protect itself'
The Nation


A man carries a child through knee-deep floods yesterday in Chon Buri province to Wat Phan Thong, where flood-affected residents have been offered shelter at the school inside the temple grounds.

Water official says govt's Bt350-bn project would prevent heavy flooding

PRACHIN BURI: -- Reacting to the heavy flooding in Prachin Buri, which has been inundated since September 19, the acting director-general of the Office of the National Water and Flood Management Policy yesterday said the water-management mechanism in this eastern province was meant to accommodate the irrigation system, not drainage or flood prevention.

Suphot Tovichakchaikul stressed the importance of the government's Bt350-billion water-management programme, which he said would prevent such heavy flooding. It would include a project to build a network of floodways to convey floodwater to the Bang Pakong River, along with other measures to prevent the water from spilling over into Prachin Buri's urban areas, especially heavily flooded Kabin Buri and Si Maha Pho.

If all the projects under the Bt350-billion scheme are complete within five years, residents will be safe from annual flooding, even those living in low-lying areas or along banks of waterways, he said.

Suphot added that the current situation in Prachin Buri could only get better because the high-tide period on Wednesday and Thursday has passed.

Asked whether residents of Kabin Buri and Si Maha Pho would continue to face heavy flooding throughout the five-year period of the water-management project, he said certain sectors of floodways could be completed in one to two years' time. However, the overall completion of all projects was set at five years.

Four field hospitals have been set up in Prachin Buri, with extra doctors and staff mobilised from several provinces not affected by floods, said Public Health Minister Pradit Sintavanarong.

Patients with chronic diseases have been relocated from local hospitals, while an ad hoc coordination system has been set up inside a military barracks, and flood-prevention measures are in place at Chao Phya Abhaibhubejhr Hospital, a major facility.

Mobile medical teams have made 1,100 visits and treated 78,000 people, Pradit said. He called on those travelling in boats to keep buoyancy equipment ready to minimise the chance of drowning.

Flooding has eased in 14 provinces while 28 others are still affected, according to an official daily situational update, which puts the number of casualties at 39 - lower than the Public Health Ministry's figure of 51.

Staff at a national museum in Prachin Buri are moving artefacts up to its second floor as floodwater is threatening to submerge the first floor. Soldiers from local Army units are helping move heavy showpieces.

Flooding in Amata Industrial Estate in Chon Buri's Muang and Phan Thong districts has receded, with vehicles now able to travel in and out. The situation should return to normal within the next few days if there is no more heavy rains, as speculated by news reports.

-- The Nation 2013-10-12

[klubex99]

Prachin Buri 'unable to protect itself'

Hang on, a few typos in the title....

'Government's wasted spending' fails to defend Prachin Buri

There ya go... I fixed it for ya.

[NongKhaiKid]

Of course Prachin Buri was unable to defend itself and the poor folks needed all the help they could get not just a whirlwind rock star visit from YL and a dinsaur who looked as if they were enjoying themselves.

The Acting Director has carefully danced around the problem but of course assures that the B350 Billion project will fiz all, in up to 5 years. So what happened to all the promises and projects that were supposed to have started 2 years ago, as if we didn't know ?

[tominbkk]

And what happened to the trillion baht Yingluck secured for her PTP govt to solved the water crisis. Oops!

[Robby nz]

We seem to be getting some bits and pieces of what will happen to the 350billion coming out of different officials at different times.

Today we have all these channels, floodways, that are to be dug then there are the dams but is there really an overall plan?

[robblok]

We seem to be getting some bits and pieces of what will happen to the 350billion coming out of different officials at different times.

Today we have all these channels, floodways, that are to be dug then there are the dams but is there really an overall plan?

The overall plan is really clear I don't understand that you guys don't see it.

They will select what and where to build on bases of how much can they skim of not based on effectiveness. Just look at Mae Wong they want a dam there even though its proven not to be effective so they can cut down all those expensive trees there and sell them.

They wont listen to experts, because that is not important, the skim / steal factor is important even though that means nothing will work together and it will be sub standard.

I wish they would really listen to experts make a real plan, keep it transparent so it can be checked for corruption. But a country that keeps its rice policy a secret is not an open government. A government that will lie to look good (finance minster) will not be honest.

In the end they will say the sun is shining when its raining and they will not care about it.

So what hope is there for the flood protection from this red government ........ Fill it in yourself and cry.

[SOTIRIOS]

.........sounds like extortion........

[ResX]

I don't get it. How they manage water without managing floods? Water management it about getting the most of available water within one catchment and utilize it the way that makes sense to us. It turns out that at least between 30-60% of waters come during flood seasons. If they don't manage floods then they only able to get 30-70% of the available water resource.

[LuckyLew]

"water-management mechanism in this eastern province was meant to accommodate the irrigation system, not drainage or flood prevention."

Yup PTP accept no blame ... not our fault ... not me ... someone else did

Try getting of your collective bumbs and do something useful

Stop arranging dumb butt rice scams and help ALL the people of Thailand

[nakhonandy]

We seem to be getting some bits and pieces of what will happen to the 350billion coming out of different officials at different times.

Today we have all these channels, floodways, that are to be dug then there are the dams but is there really an overall plan?

The overall plan is really clear I don't understand that you guys don't see it.

They will select what and where to build on bases of how much can they skim of not based on effectiveness. Just look at Mae Wong they want a dam there even though its proven not to be effective so they can cut down all those expensive trees there and sell them.

They wont listen to experts, because that is not important, the skim / steal factor is important even though that means nothing will work together and it will be sub standard.

I wish they would really listen to experts make a real plan, keep it transparent so it can be checked for corruption. But a country that keeps its rice policy a secret is not an open government. A government that will lie to look good (finance minster) will not be honest.

In the end they will say the sun is shining when its raining and they will not care about it.

So what hope is there for the flood protection from this red government ........ Fill it in yourself and cry.

Spot on about Mae Wong, I actually live very close to there.

None of the locals want this and there have been several protests to no avail.

It will destroy almost 20 square kilometers of forest for what gain?????

Well it will go ahead anyhow irrespective of protests from conservationists and the people living there.

I wonder why (not).

[siampolee]

Prachin Buri 'unable to protect itself

Well if the government can't or won't protect them one can hardly expect the provincial authorities to be capable of protecting their local population and property can we?

Wonder where their share of monies for flood protection floated off to?

[klubex99]

We seem to be getting some bits and pieces of what will happen to the 350billion coming out of different officials at different times.

Today we have all these channels, floodways, that are to be dug then there are the dams but is there really an overall plan?

The overall plan is really clear I don't understand that you guys don't see it.

They will select what and where to build on bases of how much can they skim of not based on effectiveness. Just look at Mae Wong they want a dam there even though its proven not to be effective so they can cut down all those expensive trees there and sell them.

They wont listen to experts, because that is not important, the skim / steal factor is important even though that means nothing will work together and it will be sub standard.

I wish they would really listen to experts make a real plan, keep it transparent so it can be checked for corruption. But a country that keeps its rice policy a secret is not an open government. A government that will lie to look good (finance minster) will not be honest.

In the end they will say the sun is shining when its raining and they will not care about it.

So what hope is there for the flood protection from this red government ........ Fill it in yourself and cry.

I totally agree 100%.

The primary driving factor that is on everyone's mind when it comes to sitting down, discussing and coming up with ideas on how to solve the problem, is 'which things can we do that can utilize as many resources owned by us, our families and our cronies?' Where we can squirrel as much of the money via these 'soon to become excessively over-priced' services into our Swiss bank accounts. My brother can form a civil engineering company, and charge us 200K a day to walk around with a tape measure and a leveling staff... He gets 50K a day and i get 150K. Your cousin can rent out 2 JCBs each to follow my brother around for 10K a day each and bill us for 200K a day each..... what else can we do???...... loads of stuff like this. But whatever we do, make sure nothing works, we can lie our way around anything, even with the most see-through transparent lies, they will believe us, but failure ensures we can do this scam every couple of years.

Sorted!

A true government office will admit, they don't know what to do, so lets draft in some experts from countries that have already proved to be able to mitigate these issues and then put out the contracts for international tender to the companys that have carried out this work already successfully elsewhere.

Sorted

Edited October 12, 2013 by klubex99

[Skywalker69]

And what happened to the trillion baht Yingluck secured for her PTP govt to solved the water crisis. Oops!

Yingluck have a black belt 10th dan in shopping, were do you think the money went?

[finnomick]

Prachin Buri 'unable to protect itself

Well if the government can't or won't protect them one can hardly expect the provincial authorities to be capable of protecting their local population and property can we?

Wonder where their share of monies for flood protection floated off to?

Fairly obvious really, it went with the ' current ' down to Bangkok.....