Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul today ordered all agencies working on flood prevention and mitigation to use the same set of information about the floods and recovery to prevent public confusion.
He also instructed them to make proper preparations to deal with the risk of heavy rain on Sunday and Monday.
Chairing the meeting of the National Command for Public Disaster Prevention and Mitigation today, to assess the latest flood situation and to set guidelines for efficiency in dealing with the problem, the prime minister said that the flood situation has eased because in no small part due to the good cooperation between all agencies concerned, but warned them to remain on high alert because the situation is still unstable.
For provinces or areas where flooding has eased, he instructed the governors to inspect and assess flood damage quickly, so help and compensation can be provided where needed.
Since insurance companies will participate in paying compensation to affected people and households, the prime minister instructed all governors to ensure that officials tasked with surveying and assessing the damage understand the insurance regulations, to ensure claimants are treated fairly.
Meanwhile, Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said he is not worried about rain over October 5 and 8, as forecast by the Meteorological department, because the BMA is planning to drain water from canals and prepare a water retention area to absorb the rain.
He said the Nong Bon water retention area is a swamp in which there is capacity to store 4 million cubic metres of water, while the three major canals, Saen Saeb, Lat Phrao and Premprachakorn. cane store more rainwater.
‘Tho sinks’, or Thai-style water suction systems have been installed in Lat Krabang and Rom Klao housing estates, which will help to prevent water from returning.
Water runoffs from the north in the Chao Phraya River will not affect inner Bangkok because the flow through the Chao Phraya Dam is being kept at 2,500 m3/s, said the governor, adding that the BMA has coordinated with the military and the Department of Public Disaster Prevention and Mitigation to provide manpower and equipment to help in garbage collection.
