Klong Samwa residents demand wider opening of sluice gate
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Residents of Klong Samwa district protested Monday to demand the Bangkok administration to open the sluice gate of Klong Samwa Canal to the level of 150 centimetre-high.
The residents protested Sunday night and were trying to demolish the floodgate, leading to a talk, after which the authorities agreed to raise the sluice gate from 75 cm-wide to 80-cm wdie.
The protesters dispersed from the gate early Monday and regrouped later in the day. This time, some 1,000 protesters blocked the Hathai Mitr Road demanding the city administration to raise the gate to be 150 cm-wide to speed up the drainage of floodwater from their area.
But the authorities insisted that the gate could not be raised higher than 80 cm or else other areas would be affected by flooding.
The Nation
