Bangkok Administration proposes 11 projects to rehabilitate Klong Saen Saeb

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BMA proposes 11 projects to rehabilitate Klong Saen Saeb



BANGKOK: -- Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has proposed to the Transport Ministry 11 projects aimed to clean up and improve the environment of Klong Saen Saeb and a few klongs which will be used as a model for the management of pollution problem in rivers and klongs.

Mr Sompong Wiangkaew, deputy director of the drainage office of the City Hall, said Tuesday that the total costs of the 11 projects to be implemented in four years are estimated at 6.8 billion baht.

The bulk of the costs will go to the rehabilitation of Klong Saen Saeb and improvement of the water quality of the klong. The work will take about 24 months and will cost an estimated 3.8 billion baht.

The other projects include the followings: about one billion baht for the construction of a concrete embankment from Min Buri sluice gate to Nong Chok sluice gate to channel polluted water for treatment; 378 million baht for the construction of a system to channel polluted water in the klong between Wireless road to Klongton to Din Daeng waste water treatment plant; 763 million baht for the construction of a drainage tunnel; 316 million baht for improvement of water quality at Klong Bangtoei.

Mr Sompong said that the rehabilitation programme would focus on treating the polluted water from households and businesses before it is discharged into the klongs and, finally, into the Chao Phraya river.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/bma-proposes-11-projects-to-rehabilitate-klong-saen-saeb


-- Thai PBS 2015-10-07

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Wow 3.8 billion baht for improving the klong. It will be fantastic there i guess with clean water, nice parks, riverboat express, benches to sit under tree's next to flowerbeds.

Can't wait to see it. For that much money we can expect something good. I hope they even use a farang architekt and make it all durable to last 100 years.

[kotsak]

11 projects to line the usual pockets

[trogers]

Why have we not hear about any plans of action to stop the pollution?

Or should taxpayers be paying for treatments time and again while some people are allowed to go on polluting the canal?

[exalll]

Why have we not hear about any plans of action to stop the pollution?

Or should taxpayers be paying for treatments time and again while some people are allowed to go on polluting the canal?

Good question. They seem to be mainly focusing on:

"Mr Sompong said that the rehabilitation programme would focus on treating the polluted water from households and businesses before it is discharged into the klongs"