Bangkok's flood walls 'strong'
In a live telecast from City Hall, BMA drainage director Sanya Chinimit assures the viewers that BMA's flood walls are built following engineering standard with ample margin of error.
- Published: 13/10/2011 at 10:24 PM
- Newspaper section: breakingnews
The reinforced concrete walls are not the same as temporary sand/earth dykes that have been breached in Ayutthaya, Nakhon Sawan, and Pathum Thani.
The BMA flood walls are regularly maintained after floods such was the case in Bangkok last year.
The only worry is the temporary flood wall built around the squatter community who encroached on Chao Phraya river bank for a few hundred metres and refused to allow BMA to complete the permanent wall.
BMA officials are monitoring this sand dike wall around the clock to prevent someone from stealing the sandbags and to make sure that this sand dyke wall is not breached.
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