City system can't support flood test, top official warns

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
City system can't support flood test, top official warns

Deputy Bangkok Governor Teerachon Manomaiphibul warned the government Monday against plans to divert water from upriver through the heart of the capital to the sea.

 

In his Facebook account, he wrote: “(His Majesty) said the runoff water should not be brought into city centres be it Saen Saeb, Lat Phrao and other canals in the inner zone of Bangkok because the capital’s waterdrainage system has been designed to deal with rainfall only.”
Teerachon did not agree with the government and its Water and Flood Management Commission’s (WFMC) decision to test drainage by pushing water into the Lat Phrao Canal.
The Nation