BMC on flood alert as Northern run-off heads for Bangkok

  

BANGKOK, 7  October 2016 (NNT) - The Bangkok Metropolitan Council (BMC) is closely monitoring the situation in the flood-prone district of Don Mueang as run-off from the upper provinces is on its way to the capital city. 

The BMC’s chairman Pol. Capt. Kriangsak Lohachala has called a meeting with the chiefs and officials of Don Mueang District Office and Department of Drainage and Sewerage to prepare a flood prevention and relief scheme.

 

The BMC is particularly concerned about Khlong Prem Prachakorn, since the canal is seeing surging water levels and passes through different districts in Bangkok and other provinces. Heavy rains could cause the canal to overflow and flood nearby communities. 

Don Mueang District Office has installed propeller pumps in different flood-prone areas to accelerate drainage from subsidiary canals to Khlong Prem Prachakorn.

 

The water will then be discharged into Rangsit Canal and on to the Chao Phraya River after that. Don Mueang District Office has proposed a new sewer system to boost drainage. The project is awaiting budget approval from the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. 

The BMC chairman then surveyed the sluice gate at Khlong Prem Prachakorn and asked residents about their problems and needs. He later continued his trip to Pathum Thani to observe the changing level of water at Lak Hok Canal.

 

-- nnt 2016-10-07

Where are those 1000 propellers when you need them?

35 minutes ago, webfact said:

The Bangkok Metropolitan Council (BMC) is closely monitoring the situation in the flood-prone district of Don Mueang as run-off from the upper provinces is on its way to the capital city. 

 

OMG!! Who would ever have predicted this???

 

It must have come as a massive shock for the powers that be! No wonder they're so utterly unprepared.

 

 

41 minutes ago, trogers said:

Where are those 1000 propellers when you need them?

So since the last big flooding nothing has been done to protect Bangkok??? 

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He been busy with lottery ticket give him chance.

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38 minutes ago, jamesbrock said:

 

OMG!! Who would ever have predicted this???

 

It must have come as a massive shock for the powers that be! No wonder they're so utterly unprepared.

 

 

 

They just don't give a damn.

2 minutes ago, MaxLee said:

 

They just don't give a damn.

 

Why do Bangkokians pay tax? Nothing is done with it.

1 hour ago, fruitman said:

 

Why do Bangkokians pay tax? Nothing is done with it.

 

Used for example for special secret staging Thai Elite trips and related,.... CLASSIFIED of course

2 hours ago, trogers said:

Where are those 1000 propellers when you need them?

 

The Shinawatra's fawning puppets, stooges, lackeys and drones probably sold them and pocketed the cash!!

I am so confused?

Didn't the head-honcho(s) say, there would be no flood?

Does that mean, they have no clue, what they are talking about?

And the grand water-plan, that upriver and downriver- people should just under-sa-tand?

Does it mean, there was no plan?

I am so shocked?

 

There are a bunch of people, who are in dire need of the water, though!

They have egg on their faces!

21 minutes ago, DM07 said:

I am so confused?

Didn't the head-honcho(s) say, there would be no flood?

Does that mean, they have no clue, what they are talking about?

And the grand water-plan, that upriver and downriver- people should just under-sa-tand?

Does it mean, there was no plan?

I am so shocked?

 

There are a bunch of people, who are in dire need of the water, though!

They have egg on their faces!

 

That's because it's amazing Thailand,.... every day, every year NO floods, NO scandals, NO corruption 

4 hours ago, fruitman said:

So since the last big flooding nothing has been done to protect Bangkok??? 

yes a law suite against those who mis managed that flood is well under way. seeing them punished to the full extent of the law will make sure it does not happen again.

In 2011, letting DMK become a "monkey-cheek" was a non-issue; just military and some charter flights impacted. These days it might be a disaster. Maybe U-Tapao and SBIA/BKK could handle some flights but not all.

 

 

BMC bemused that run-off always seems to head to Bangkok.

4 hours ago, fruitman said:

 

Why do Bangkokians pay tax? Nothing is done with it.

 

WRONG !  The tax "receivers" use it for their leisure and to keep their mia nois satisfied  

 

So...  SOMETHING is done with it...  

I bought my town house in Bang Bua Thong in 1998.  All through the years there were floods but nature took it's course and the low lying areas flooded.  But then the "EXPERTS" got involved and tried to control nature by opening this dam and closing this one and look what it caused, a disaster.  I had 1.7 meters in my house.  Dry for 13 years.  Now 5 years later they are doing it all over again!

 

They should send their experts to New Orleans, a town below see level very similar to Bangkok at the end of the Mississippi River.  There is no attempt to screw with mother nature and control the flow of the river but they have learned how to protect the the area with levies and pumps.  After the 2011 flood there was much talk about levies but nothing has happened.  I guess that it's just the Thai way.

5 hours ago, MaxLee said:

 

They just don't give a damn.

Maybe slightly mispelt, but obviously deliberate.

So, they are 'monitoring the situation'....What next, what will they do....? These people do not know, have never known, nor will they ever know, what the hell they are doing. Pathetic. Let's

get a beer.

10 hours ago, fruitman said:

So since the last big flooding nothing has been done to protect Bangkok??? 

Don't have to do anything after all just recently the experts (God love them) said there would be no flooding

11 hours ago, jamesbrock said:

 

OMG!! Who would ever have predicted this???

 

It must have come as a massive shock for the powers that be! No wonder they're so utterly unprepared.

 

 

OMG!! Who would ever have predicted this???

 

NOBODY! Who wants to be prosecuted for misleading the public?