Bangkok deputy governor Wissanu Sapsompol says the city’s giant drainage tunnel will be fully operational for the “rainy season.”
The new Bueng Nong Bon drainage tunnel, which began construction in January 2016, was not expected to be finished until March next year. But the city’s deputy governor insists it will be ready just in time for the kingdom’s rainy season due to start next month.
Wissanu says the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has outlined plans to use the drainage tunnel in Prawet district, and the Bang Ao pump station in Bang Na will help speed up the flow of excess water into the Chao Phraya River.
The former deputy rector of Chulalongkorn University added the BMA would open the completed drainage tunnels to help mitigate any abundance of water in the city during the rainy season, and says they have the potential to protect 85 square kilometres of the…
