Floodwater erodes Mae Pongphan dyke
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FLOODWATER has eaten away the riverbank next to the controversial Mae Pongphan Pattana dyke, making it unable to hold water from upstream despite the fact it was only built a week ago.
Photos of the eroded riverbank circulated on social media Friday, showing that water from the stream had created a hole about a metre wide.
Mae Pongphan is the wife of Defence Ministry permanent secretary General Preecha Chan-o-cha. She has been in the public eye since leading a group of senior military officers’ wives on a charity trip to help villagers in Tambon Mae Ka in Chiang Mai’s Fang district to build the dyke, with a budget reported as Bt7,800.
