Thailand's upper region continues to experience flooding

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Thailand's upper region continues to experience flooding

 

 

PICHIT, 31 August 2016 (NNT) - Authorities in the North and North East of Thailand have been monitoring the flood situation around the clock as continuous rainfall threatens to flood homes and farmlands. 

In the northern province of Pichit, water levels in Sub Perb and Wang Daeng canals increased quickly due to surface runoff from Petchabun mountain ranges. The canals overflowed the embankments and flooded thousand rais of rice fields in Thub Kho district. 

Nakhon Sawan residents stacked up sandbags around their homes and farmlands out of fear that several canals will soon overflow the embankments, if the province experiences more rainfall. 

Meanwhile, Uthai Thani Governor Prapat Malakan and related agencies gave out relief bags to flood affected residents. More than 40 villages in four sub-district of Uthai Thani province have so far been damaged by the deluge. 

Sukhothai Governor Piti Kaewsalubsee held a meeting with provincial authorities to develop a contingency plan should the water levels in the Yom River reach a critical point. 

The water has also been diverted to a retention area nearby in an effort to prevent flooding in riverside communities. An emergency team is now on standby to provide immediate rescue to those in need.

 

-- nnt 2016-08-31

[Cuchulainn]

I'm no engineer, but isn't there any way this excess water can be stored and used in the next drought? Reservoirs,dams?

 

Just a thought.

[Ralf61]

1 hour ago, Cuchulainn said:

I'm no engineer, but isn't there any way this excess water can be stored and used in the next drought? Reservoirs,dams?

 

Just a thought.

 

 

Start teaching them not to dump their litter into their brand-new drainage pipes...

[soalbundy]

Is this the reason that the ATM machines can't give me any money from my German account ?

always the same message today, ''communication error''

[gemguy]

Are those the same areas dry as a bone 6 months ago and no water at all.

Hmmmm...for the future ....how could they store all the excess rain they have now ...I wonder

[selftaopath]

20 hours ago, Cuchulainn said:

I'm no engineer, but isn't there any way this excess water can be stored and used in the next drought? Reservoirs,dams?

 

Just a thought.

I agree. The so called drainage here is laughable... In other higher functioning countries the storm drains are big enough to drive a truck in. What are they here? lol In our village there a/b 16 inches deep. and a/b 12 inches wide..... What do they expect from these systems? Even in BKK I saw the ones one the street..... usually filled with liter.... were/are very limited. Am I incorrect? But to change a system would require inertia - difficult to find here. 

[GOLDBUGGY]

4 hours ago, gemguy said:

Are those the same areas dry as a bone 6 months ago and no water at all.

Hmmmm...for the future ....how could they store all the excess rain they have now ...I wonder

I suppose they could if they could find an Underground Cavern, and as long as it wasn't a Salt Cavern. 

 

One of the worlds largest fresh water lakes is not above ground. It is in fact below ground in the Libyan Desert. I don't know the complexity or expense in finding such a place, and pumping it out. It cost Libya Billions of Dollars.

 

But then they couldn't use it right their and pumped this water thousands of miles to where they could use it to irrigate and also use as drinking water. 

[gemguy]

Many possibilities while I believe technology will prevail and somehow, someway address the issue of excess rain water somehow being captured and saved for the future.

Cheers

[ratcatcher]

This story is not about sub-standard drainage pipes in suburban areas, but serious flooding in rural areas, in this case, eastern Phichit province due to run off from the Petchabun area mountain range and other areas of the north.. The government has already set aside thousands more rais of farm land in the north for the storage of excess water. This happens every year and the reaction is the same every year. Flood, drought, too much water, not enough water.

 

http://thailand.prd.go.th/ewt_news.php?nid=2835&filename=index

http://thainews.prd.go.th/website_en/news/news_detail/WNEVN5808060010001

[billd766]

1 hour ago, ratcatcher said:

This story is not about sub-standard drainage pipes in suburban areas, but serious flooding in rural areas, in this case, eastern Phichit province due to run off from the Petchabun area mountain range and other areas of the north.. The government has already set aside thousands more rais of farm land in the north for the storage of excess water. This happens every year and the reaction is the same every year. Flood, drought, too much water, not enough water.

 

http://thailand.prd.go.th/ewt_news.php?nid=2835&filename=index

http://thainews.prd.go.th/website_en/news/news_detail/WNEVN5808060010001

 

Listen to ratcatcher as he lives in the Pichit province and has more local knowledge than most posters here.

 

What you could do is to look at the state of the dams here 

 

http://www.thaiwater.net/DATA/REPORT/php/rid_dam_1.php?lang=en

 

and here

 

http://www.thaiwater.net/DATA/REPORT/php/show_sm_dam.php?lang=en

 

then cross refer to Google Earth and see where the dams are in relation to the flooding areas and what the water levels are today.