Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt has assured the public that City Corridor has prepared steps to cope with overflows from your Chao Phraya Water during high tides from the end of the month to earlier August.
Mr Chadchart mentioned on Wednesday that will additional floodwalls along the Chao Phraya River will be constructed. Currently, there are floodwalls covering a distance associated with 88 kilometres throughout the city — 80 kilometres were built by the city administration and the remaining eight kilometres by the personal sector.
There are more than twenty gaps in the city’s flood walls, which need to be plugged with sandbags, said the governor.
The particular Bangkok Metropolitan Management has already been allocated with a budget to connect 13 gaps, along with sandbags already prepared.
There are some vulnerable areas, for example Song Wad and Talad Noi, that are prone to flooding when the tide is higher, Mr Chadchart mentioned.
The BMA may accelerate the work in order to plug gaps in the flood walls in areas of both Thon Buri and Bangkok, including gaps in the flood walls on land owned by private sector.
The Regal Irrigation Department upon Wednesday morning documented that the water moving into the Chao Phraya River was one, 200 cubic meres of water per second. This price was normal, said the governor.
He has ordered BMA officials to carefully monitor the particular gaps in the city’s floodwalls.
The amount of water deemed important was 2, 000 cubic metres for each second, and anything at all above this price would cause the Chao Phraya River to overflow the particular banks, said Mr Chadchart.
The BMA has raised the elevation of the river embankments to 2 . 80-3. 5 metres over mean sea degree to cope with high tides, he said.
He confident the public that the BMA is well prepared to cope with flooding. It has obtained cooperation from the army to unclog the drainage system through Lat Phrao canal to Bang Bua canal.
Any office of National Water Resources said upon Wednesday high tides from 1 . 90 to 2 . ten metres above sea level were expected from Thursday in order to Monday in Nonthaburi, Samut Prakan and Bangkok.