urgent!! Ubonrat Dam More than 95% of the water has been stored. Accelerate drainage to 15 cubic meters per day.

October 15, 2021

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October 15, 2021 – 18:44

urgent!! Ubonrat Dam More than 95% of the water has been stored. Accelerate drainage to 15 cubic meters per day, up to 35 million cubic meters, by a ladder.

Mr. Somsak Changtrakul, the governor of Khon Kaen province, revealed that the water storage capacity of the Ubonrat Dam is now at 2,298 million cubic meters, or 95 percent of the reservoir capacity. While the drainage from the dam according to the water management guidelines not to affect the Chi River is 10 million cubic meters per day and the dam can support the amount of water for only 130 million cubic meters, it will be full. tub capacity The water management committee meeting therefore resolved to adjust the drainage level of the Ubonrat Dam to 15 million cubic meters with immediate effect. and to increase the drainage level to 18 million cubic meters the next day and adjust the drainage every day continuously every day with a ladder And may be the maximum at 35 million cubic meters per day, which the increase in drainage has to be concluded and ask for a resolution from every meeting so that the water mass does not flow into the Chi River too quickly? further affecting river overflows on both sides of the Phong River during this period

“The province has coordinated with the Royal Irrigation Department. which recently found The Bureau of Irrigation No. 6 has completed the installation of 50 water boosters at Maha Sarakham Dam and will start working immediately to accelerate drainage from the Chi River to flow into the Mun River and into the Mekong River along the waterway. Currently, a large lump of water that passed through Khon Kaen Province last week has flowed into the Roi Et area. causing the area on both sides of the Chi River now is during the last lump of water. From the latest measurements of the Chi River, it was found that at the water level measurement station in Kut Kwang, Mueang Kao Subdistrict, Mueang District, the water level dropped by 9 cm, and at the water level measurement station in Kosum Phisai district, Maha Sarakham province, the water level dropped by 7. cm. If there is no rainwater added in this period, the water level in the Chi River will continue to decline every day. which the province prepares to plan for pumping the dew fields and flooding from various areas to flow into the Chi River, which is expected to begin in the next three days.

Khon Kaen Provincial Governor added that The addition of the Royal Irrigation Department’s water pusher will cause the water level in the Chi River to drop dramatically in the next three days, in line with the drainage level of the Ubonrat Dam.