A man commutes on a makeshift raft from his flooded house in Phanom Sarakham district of Chachoengsao in 2018. (File photo: Sonthanaporn Inchan)
The Irrigation Department plans an 80-billion-baht canal through five provinces to mitigate flooding in the lower Chao Phraya river basin.
Pichet Ratanaprasartkul, the department’s director for engineering and architectural design, said the new canal would stretch 135 kilometres from tambon Roeng Rang in Sao Hai district of Saraburi to tambon Klong Song in Bang Pakong district of Chachoengsao.
The new canal would link the Pasak River and the Gulf of Thailand, speeding up flood drainage in the rainy season with a maximum drainage rate of 600 cubic metres of water per second. It would also…
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