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Discharges from Tak threaten lower provinces
Published: 6/10/2011 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: News
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news....the-way
Increased water discharges from the Bhumibol Dam in Tak have threatened to add flood woes to provinces downstream, including Ayutthaya where a large number of industrial factories have been inundated since Tuesday.
Overflows from the Noi, Chao Phraya, Pasak and Lop Buri rivers as well as floodwater from fields in Lop Buri province hit larger areas of Ayutthaya yesterday.
Flooding expanded in all the province's 16 districts and 14 of them were heavily hit. Some of them are isolated as their roads are impassable.
They include Ban Phraek, Maha Rat, Tha Rua and Phak Hai districts. People in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya and Nakhon Luang districts of Ayutthaya started to suffer from severe flooding yesterday.
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In first estimate, state puts flooding damage at B30bn
Floodwater broke through dykes at Saha Rattana Nakorn Industrial Estate in tambon Bang Phrakhru of Nakhon Luang district late on Tuesday night and inundated 43 medium and large-scale factories, most of which belong to Japanese companies.
Machines and goods in most of the plants are under water as the water surge was too sudden for factory owners to move them to safe places.
Authorities yesterday gave conflicting figures about the damage caused to Ayutthaya by the floods.
While Deputy Prime Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong put the damage cost to the province since July at 20-30 billion baht, Public Health Minister and Ayutthaya MP Witthaya Buranasiri estimated the damage to the industrial estate as well as urban and commercial areas in Ayutthaya at at least 100 billion baht.
Yesterday, the water level in many areas including historical sites in the province was 2-3m deep.
Floodwater also covered the outbound lanes of Rojana Road from a roundabout to Wat Phrayat intersection and was expanding yesterday. The discharge rate at the Bhumibol Dam in Tak province has risen from 60 million cubic metres to 100 million cu m of water per day. The flow runs at about 1,200 cu m per second.
The increasing discharge is meant to save the dam. The extra volume of water has worsened the flood situation downstream.
A larger volume of water will also be released from Sirikit Dam in Uttaradit province because water influxes are about to fill its reservoir.
Tak governor Samart Loifa said the Bhumibol Dam received about 300 million cu m of water every day. The intake is historically high and exceeds the capacity of the dam.
The water released through the dam's spillway will raise the level of the Ping River by 1m and riverside communities in Sam Ngao, Ban Tak, Muang Tak and Wang Chao districts of Tak as well as those in Kamphaeng Phet province would be flooded. "The amount of water becomes critically high and the Bhumibol Dam must speed up discharges to cope with more incoming water. Water from the dam adjoins water from the Wang River from Lampang province. It overflows to houses and destroys dykes. Provincial authorities have warned people living near the river in Sam Ngao, Ban Tak, Muang Tak and Wang Chao districts to prepare to cope with flooding immediately," the Tak governor said.
Phranai Suwannarat, acting permanent secretary for interior and director of the disaster relief centre, convened an urgent meeting with officials.
He said water from the Bhumibol Dam would reach Nakhon Sawan province in two days and ordered officials to check flood walls in risk areas as floodwater levels should rise by at least 30cm.
The Irrigation Department confirmed water from the Bhumibol Dam in the Ping River and rising water from its tributary, the Wang River, that adjoins it in Tak province would cause floods in Tak, Kamphaeng Phet and Nakhon Sawan. The flow rate of the Chao Phraya River which receives water from the Ping River increased to 5,000-5,500 cu m per second yesterday.
Science and Technology Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi yesterday urged boat owners who live along the Chao Phraya River to use their boats to help propel water from the river into the sea.
He suggested the effort should be intensified in 10 days before the next high tide on Oct 17 and 18. The minister promised the government would pay for fuel of the boats. He suggested boat owners contact all government agencies to report information about their boats and seek the fuel payment.
Such requests can also be filed via his phone number 08 1496 6644 around the clock.
Sanya Cheenimit, the City Hall's director of the Drainage and Sewerage Department, said the incoming water would compound flood situations in Nakhon Sawan, Chai Nat, Sing Buri, Ayutthaya, Pathum Thani and Nonthaburi but remaining water that passed those provinces would not overflow Bangkok's flood walls which are 2.5m high.
He assured the floods would not reach inner Bangkok.
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SONY Camera factory under water
Honda car plant under water
Ayutthaya-based Saha Rattana Nakorn Industrial Estate is inundated by overflow from the Chao Phraya River, leaving 43 factories damaged, most of them Japanese ventures. NATTHATITI AMPAIWAN
Discharges from Tak threaten lower provinces
Published: 6/10/2011 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: News
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news....the-way
Increased water discharges from the Bhumibol Dam in Tak have threatened to add flood woes to provinces downstream, including Ayutthaya where a large number of industrial factories have been inundated since Tuesday.
Overflows from the Noi, Chao Phraya, Pasak and Lop Buri rivers as well as floodwater from fields in Lop Buri province hit larger areas of Ayutthaya yesterday.
Flooding expanded in all the province's 16 districts and 14 of them were heavily hit. Some of them are isolated as their roads are impassable.
They include Ban Phraek, Maha Rat, Tha Rua and Phak Hai districts. People in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya and Nakhon Luang districts of Ayutthaya started to suffer from severe flooding yesterday.
See also:
Sluice gate closure 'not Banharn order'
Royal project farm inundated
In first estimate, state puts flooding damage at B30bn
Floodwater broke through dykes at Saha Rattana Nakorn Industrial Estate in tambon Bang Phrakhru of Nakhon Luang district late on Tuesday night and inundated 43 medium and large-scale factories, most of which belong to Japanese companies.
Machines and goods in most of the plants are under water as the water surge was too sudden for factory owners to move them to safe places.
Authorities yesterday gave conflicting figures about the damage caused to Ayutthaya by the floods.
While Deputy Prime Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong put the damage cost to the province since July at 20-30 billion baht, Public Health Minister and Ayutthaya MP Witthaya Buranasiri estimated the damage to the industrial estate as well as urban and commercial areas in Ayutthaya at at least 100 billion baht.
Yesterday, the water level in many areas including historical sites in the province was 2-3m deep.
Floodwater also covered the outbound lanes of Rojana Road from a roundabout to Wat Phrayat intersection and was expanding yesterday. The discharge rate at the Bhumibol Dam in Tak province has risen from 60 million cubic metres to 100 million cu m of water per day. The flow runs at about 1,200 cu m per second.
The increasing discharge is meant to save the dam. The extra volume of water has worsened the flood situation downstream.
A larger volume of water will also be released from Sirikit Dam in Uttaradit province because water influxes are about to fill its reservoir.
Tak governor Samart Loifa said the Bhumibol Dam received about 300 million cu m of water every day. The intake is historically high and exceeds the capacity of the dam.
The water released through the dam's spillway will raise the level of the Ping River by 1m and riverside communities in Sam Ngao, Ban Tak, Muang Tak and Wang Chao districts of Tak as well as those in Kamphaeng Phet province would be flooded. "The amount of water becomes critically high and the Bhumibol Dam must speed up discharges to cope with more incoming water. Water from the dam adjoins water from the Wang River from Lampang province. It overflows to houses and destroys dykes. Provincial authorities have warned people living near the river in Sam Ngao, Ban Tak, Muang Tak and Wang Chao districts to prepare to cope with flooding immediately," the Tak governor said.
Phranai Suwannarat, acting permanent secretary for interior and director of the disaster relief centre, convened an urgent meeting with officials.
He said water from the Bhumibol Dam would reach Nakhon Sawan province in two days and ordered officials to check flood walls in risk areas as floodwater levels should rise by at least 30cm.
The Irrigation Department confirmed water from the Bhumibol Dam in the Ping River and rising water from its tributary, the Wang River, that adjoins it in Tak province would cause floods in Tak, Kamphaeng Phet and Nakhon Sawan. The flow rate of the Chao Phraya River which receives water from the Ping River increased to 5,000-5,500 cu m per second yesterday.
Science and Technology Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi yesterday urged boat owners who live along the Chao Phraya River to use their boats to help propel water from the river into the sea.
He suggested the effort should be intensified in 10 days before the next high tide on Oct 17 and 18. The minister promised the government would pay for fuel of the boats. He suggested boat owners contact all government agencies to report information about their boats and seek the fuel payment.
Such requests can also be filed via his phone number 08 1496 6644 around the clock.
Sanya Cheenimit, the City Hall's director of the Drainage and Sewerage Department, said the incoming water would compound flood situations in Nakhon Sawan, Chai Nat, Sing Buri, Ayutthaya, Pathum Thani and Nonthaburi but remaining water that passed those provinces would not overflow Bangkok's flood walls which are 2.5m high.
He assured the floods would not reach inner Bangkok.
MANY comments at the links
SONY Camera factory under water
Honda car plant under water
Ayutthaya-based Saha Rattana Nakorn Industrial Estate is inundated by overflow from the Chao Phraya River, leaving 43 factories damaged, most of them Japanese ventures. NATTHATITI AMPAIWAN
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