City system can't support flood test : deputy BKK governor

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.
“Doing so will just bring tears to Thais again,” he said. The WFMC carried out a drainage test last Wednesday by channelling water into Bangkok’s west. Another test involving Lat Phrao Canal was due to take place last Friday but called off in the wake of downpours.
However, the WFMC has not given up on the drainage test. The government said flooding in some areas of Bangkok late last week was a result of heavy rain, not the drainage test.  
Speaking in his capacity as a member of a WFMC subpanel, Hydro and Agro Infomatics Institute director Royol Chitdon said cooperation was also needed from communities for authorities to efficiently manage the water situation.
He pointed out that more than 90,000 people had encroached on the banks of Lat Phrao Canal
Royol dismissed Teerachon’s suggestion that the drainage test arranged by the WFMC caused flooding in Bangkok.
“Why has he raised such an allegation? In fact, the water-drainage test preparations helped a lot when Bangkok faced heavy downpours,” he said.
Pheu Thai Bangkok MP Jirayu Huangsap attacked Teerachon for politicising the drainage test.
“If he (Teerachon) really knows so [much] about water management, he should ask Bangkok Governor MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra to appoint him as Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s (BMA) reprerepresentative in the WFMC,” Jirayu said. “If Teerachon is so good, why has Sukhambhand chosen to send Deputy Bangkok Governor Wallop Suwandee to the WFMC?”
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra dismissed concerns that the central government and BMA may not cooperate well in the mission to prevent further flooding. “We have managed the situation via the WFMC and it has unity,” she said. “Different individuals may have different opinions. But there is no inconsistency about information released officially by the WFMC.”