PM concerned over water level in Lop Buri dam
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Prime Minister General Prayut Chanocha Wednesday visited the Pa Sak Jolasid Dam in Lop Buri's Pattana Nikhom district and said the water level there was alarmingly low but the situation has started to improve with water pouring into the dam due to continu
Prayut was told that the Pa Sak dam still held 40.18 million cubic metres or four per cent of capacity. It received water at 25 cubic metres per second or 2.17 million cubic metres per day but released about 1 million cubic metres of water per day.
Prayut, accompanied by Interior Minister Anupong Paojinda and Natural Resources and Environment Minister Dapong Ratanasuwan, also inspected the dam’s “monkey cheek” water retention area project around the dam to increase water storage capacity by another 46 million cubic metres.
