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Chiang Mai Municipality Works on Flood Prevention from Ping Riverside to Nimmanhaemin Road

CityNews– On 13^th June 2012, Mayor Tassanai Buranupakorn, along with government officials, surveyed an area along the Ping River in Chiang Mai that might be widened in order to prevent flooding this coming rainy season.

Mayor Tassanai Buranupakorn

The project will cover 22 kilometres along both sides of the Ping River. The plan is to widen the riverbank as well as to build concrete walls and place sandbags to protect the land from encroaching water

The government is planning to build a low 1-metre concrete wall though they insist this will not detract from the beautiful scenery along the riverside and they also say that flowers and trees will be planted aside the wall. Water pumps will be placed in many locations if flooding does happen. 

The mayor also said that the government is in the process of widening the Mae Kha Canal, which cuts through the entire city. It will help to speed up the draining process, says the mayor, shortening the duration of standing water.

In areas such as Nimanheamin Road where floods sometimes happen, the government has placed water pumps to work as a draining system to prepare and prevent floods in the future.

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