Water released from Kalasin dam inundates farms
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Officials accelerated water release from the Lam Pao Dam in Kalasin as upstream waters flooded into the dam, causing some 30,000 rai (4,800 hectares) of rice fields in Muang district to be inundated.
Ruechai Jampanil, the director of the Lam Pao River Irrigation Project, said it was necessary to release water at the rate of 20 million cubic metres a day because massive floodwaters from Udon Thani and Sakon Nakhon had flown into the dam.
On Saturday and Sunday, a total of 201 million cubic metres of water rushed into the dam, raising its water level to 1.673 billion cubic metres or 80 per cent of its capacity of 1.98 billion cubic metres.
Officials said the released water inundated the rice fields.
Before the accelerated release of water from the dam, 11 out of 15 districts in Kalasin had already been declared flood disaster zones following torrential rains triggered by storm Sonca.
