Mabprachan Reservoir gains 70cm from Vamco

PATTAYA:--While meters of water seemingly covered Pattaya for days, tropical depression Vamco did very little to help the water situation at Mabprachan Reservoir because Pattaya’s drainage system sent all the storm runoff into the sea instead of keeping it to combat drought.

The lake’s water level increased 70 centimeters during the Sept. 14-18 storm, shocking those who saw the devastation caused by flooding in the city.

Other reservoirs supplying Pattaya also got just an incremental boost, with the Nongkoh basin now at 4.5 million cubic meters, or about enough for a month. Mabprachan, by comparison, has 6.75 million cu. meters of water.

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-- Pattaya Mail 2015-10-02

Did somebody really expect that a whole years drought be compensated by a single storm?

That storm would be called apocalypse.

I think that if the catchment area was greater then that storm could well have made the lake level rise a lot more than it did. The catchment area of the lake doesnt seem very big when you look at it closely.