Bangkok on flood alert with forecast for more rain this week

TANATPONG KONGSAI
Pratch Rujivanarom
THE NATION 

 

 

BANGKOK: -- WITH more heavy rain expected to hit the capital this week, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has instructed officials to monitor main roads as well as 300 flood-prone secondary roads and housing estates.

 

The BMA also dispatched pumps to drain water from flood-hit communities along Klong Prem Prachakorn in Don Muang district while district chief Wandee Sonchai admitted drainage was made particularly difficult because the swollen canal was the district's main drainage channel.

 

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Meanwhile the government want to press on with a project which can only restrict the flow of the Chao Praya leaving those of us just north of BKK to bear the brunt like we did in 2011

 

Grrrr.

 

Any link to a map that shows risk prone areas ?

3 hours ago, Crossy said:

Meanwhile the government want to press on with a project which can only restrict the flow of the Chao Praya leaving those of us just north of BKK to bear the brunt like we did in 2011

 

Grrrr.

 

With the majority of tax bahts flowing into Bangkok and they still cannot fix the problem incredible.