Pattaya hopes to cut flooding problem off at source

[Rimmer]

Pattaya hopes to cut flooding problem off at source

PATTAYA:--Pattaya officials have decided the best way to solve the city’s chronic flooding problem is to cut off the water at the source.

Reviewing the final draft of flood-control “master plan” prepared by King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, Pattaya Permanent Secretary Pakorn Sukhonthachat said researchers from the college’s Center for Water Engineering and Infrastructure Research have concluded that the first step in their nine-year, 10 billion baht plan has to be the diversion of storm runoff from higher ground in Nongprue, Nong Plalai, and Nong Krabok.

“We have to start the construction of an efficient water-drainage system at the railroad because of the amount of water that comes from other areas,” Pakorn said.

- See more at: http://www.pattayamail.com/localnews/pattaya-hopes-to-cut-flooding-problem-off-at-source-38267#sthash.aeHaD0by.dpuf

-- Pattaya Mail 2014-06-06

[fakename]

Why not run the storm runoff into Charknork Reservoir, its already used as a garbage dump. People are dumping garbage along it every day..

[mikebell]

Surely, 'the source' is in the clouds. Just blow them away.