BANGKOK, Dec 20 (TNA) — Floods are subsiding in the southern border province of Narathiwat but officials are put on standby in case that rain resumes, according to the Royal Irrigation Department’s Director-General Thongplew Kongjun.
Mr. Thongplew said heavy rain on Dec 17-18 caused Pattani, Kolok and Sai Buri rivers as well as Tanyongmat canal to overflow.
He said overall floodwater was receding and overflowing remained only from the Kolok river in Sungai Kolok district and from the Tanyongmat canal in Rangae district of Narathiwat. Unless rain resumes, the overflowing should stop within Dec 23.
Mr Thongplew also said that the Pattani river was overflowing in Ban Boridor village of Muang Pattani district.
He said his department was operating 25 mobile pumps, four water propellers and nine pumping stations to speed up flood drainage in the area. Irrigation officials in the South were on standby if severe flooding situations recurred, he added. (TNA)
