Floods in Lower Thai North receding

NAKHON SAWAN, THAILAND, September 10 (TNA) - Floods in many areas in the Lower Thai North have been receding, allowing local authorities to immediately survey damages in order to assist people in the affected zones. In Nakhon Sawan Province, for instance, inundations in affected areas in Nong Bua and Muang Districts, have kept subsiding gradually. Flooding on an entrance street toward Huay Waree Tai Village in Nong Bua'sTharn Thaharn locality, caused by recent runoffs, has been receding, but nearby residential areas have remained under 20-40 centimetre-floodwater, prompting locals to have relied on wood planks and bridges to commute. Although Baan Huay Waree Tai School has been reopened with some inundations remained, no students have shown up yet as their parents remain concerned over their safety. Water levels of both the Yom and Nan Rivers at an upstream measuring point before their entry into Nakhon Sawan remained stable on Wednesday morning, so did water levels of the Chao Phraya River at the Jira Prawat Camp in Muang District, but locals living along the Yom River and near the Goei Chai estuary have moved their belongings to high grounds and already prepared boats for their travels as a precaution. The Nakhon Sawan governor has, in the meantime, ordered officials concerned to urgently survey damages so that financial and other needed assistance will be then handed to local flood victims. In Yasothon Province in the Thai Northeast, water levels in the Chi River, have, meanwhile, kept rising, boosted by water inflows from its upstream areas, prompting local officials to have opened eight sluice gates at the Yasothon-Panom Prai Dam to release out excess water and to have taken turns to watch out water levels at the dam around the clock, while locals of Baan Don Kaew, a village situated on a bank of the Chi River, have hurriedly harvested their off-season rice earlier than schedule to prevent any loss from a possible flooding. (TNA)