BANGKOK, Oct 7 (TNA) — The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) prepares drainage to cope with heavy rain on Oct 7-9.
Bangkok deputy governor Sakchai Boonma chaired BMA’s flood prevention meeting with representatives of BMA’s units including its Department of Drainage and Sewerage and Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation as well as 50 district offices. They discussed measures to handle considerable rainwater that the Meteorological Department expected due to a low-pressure area that was growing into a depression.
The department warned that the storm would arrive from South China Sea, cover the East, the upper Gulf of Thailand and the upper South and cause heavy rain in the lower Northeast, the East, the Central Plains including greater Bangkok and the South.
The meeting agreed that officials of the Department of Drainage and Sewerage would install more pumps at flood-prone areas and prepare flood relief equipment in case that property owners in low-lying areas may seek to solve flooding.
Flooding happened mostly in areas of private properties that adjoin public areas and BMA has no authority to take action to solve flooding unless the property owners request for it.
BMA also asked the government and private organizations that were building electric railways to remove blockages from drainage at their construction sites. (TNA)
