Preparing for the rainy season, city workers clear away water plants that grow in Naklua’s Nok Yang Canal. The plant life can block rainwater and cause flooding further inland. The canal is an essential outlet for rainwater, but also sees rapid growth of water plants requiring repeated attempts to keep it clear and help alleviate flooding during heavy rainfall.
Pattaya prepared for the coming rains by again cleaning Naklua’s Nok Yang canal.
Deputy Mayor Verawat Khakhay and Sompop Wandee, director of the Water Quality Management Department, deployed workers from the Sanitation Department at the waterway near Pattaya Technical College June 9. The aim was to remove the water plants that were filling the canal and dredge mud to prepare for the rainy season.
Preparing for the rainy season, city workers clear away water plants that grow in Naklua’s Nok Yang Canal. The plant life can block rainwater and cause flooding further inland. The canal is an essential outlet for rainwater, but also sees rapid growth of water plants requiring repeated attempts to keep it clear and help alleviate flooding during heavy rainfall.
Canal clearance is an ongoing project. Many other areas have been cleared out and dug up during the previous months. City workers need to consistently move around to areas that are in need of attention.
The Nok Yang canal area has seen rapid growth of water plants. Verawat aims to ease floods during the rainy season and the clearance of the canals would support that project over the long term.
Nok Yang is one of the important areas where storm runoff flows before ending up in the sea.
The deputy mayor said residents will see a difference after all the canals are dredged and cleared.
Naklua’s Nok Yang Canal, like all canals in the area, suffers heavy plant growth throughout the year and requires repeated clearing to help alleviate flooding during heavy rainfall.
