Some regions were completely submerged for more than two decades.
PUBLISHED: 10 Sep 2024 at 05: 03
Local Sukhothai people are requesting that the government intervene in order to stop the area’s floods, which have been occurring for more than two weeks.
Local residents have been requesting assistance as more rainfall is expected to fall across the North as a result of Typhoon Yagi, and storms have been reported for many days in tambon Pak Phra in Muang city and tambon Kong in Kong Krailat area.
Wongduan Si-phongsai, 60, who lives on Koh Kong in the middle of the Yom River, said exposure to her town has been affected by the rising water. She feared that until the rain stopped after the November Loy Kratong event, the community would be flooded.
Another citizen, who requested anonymity, claimed that as a result of Typhoon Yagi’s weekend-making land in Vietnam, the transfer rate at Yang Sai drawbridge in Muang district has increased over the past few days.
Seven gates were set up on Monday to let the Yom River’s extra water to flow inland, affecting Kong Krailat in Sukhothai and Bang Rakham region in Phitsanulok.
Local authorities estimated that the Yom River in the northern part of Sukhothai was about 78.5 % full, but the Yom River’s water levels were n’t at a critical level.
Despite attempts to distract the extra water to the Nan River, it is claimed that the valley in Phitsanulok is now becoming more and more dangerous. As of Monday, the water levels at the Y64 water depot in Bang Rakham area stood at 7.8 feet, 1.4 feet higher than the river slope.
As a result, some areas in the state were flooded on Monday.
At least 58 % of the places designated as waters engagement areas by the Bang Rakham design, or about 153, 390 ray, were flooded by more than 264 million square meters of water, according to Phitsanulok government Phusit Somjit on Monday.
Mr Phusit and Phimpitcha Supphakitcharoen, a Pheu Thai MP for Phitsanulok, on Monday inspected the place and handed over support packages to the citizens affected by the floods in tambon Chum Saeng Songkhram.
Rice farmers in Ang Thong’s Sapphaya area were forced to harvest their newly planted rice too early to reduce the flood damage.
The Chao Phraya barrage dam’s water discharge rate on Monday, according to the Royal Irrigation Department ( RID), was 1, 434 m3 per second at the Chao Phraya barrage dam in Chai Nat.
To protect river areas from flood, the price will be set at 1,500 m3 per second for the next seven days.
Despite the flood reported in six regions, RID said that only 47 % of water in the world’s rivers, 27.125 billion m³ in overall, is accessible at the moment.