PHICHIT, Sept 9 — Flooding continues to affect residents in many areas in the North including Phichit province.
Excessive floodwater that was in Sukhothai province last week moved south reaching and widely flooded Phichit, which also received runoff from Kamphaeng Phet province through the Yom River.
About a hundred homes in Rangnok sub-district of Sam Ngam district are flooded nearly one metre deep.
Phichit provincial seat, Thap Khlo, Sam Ngam and Pho Prathap Chang districts have been declared flood-stricken areas.
In Nakhon Sawan province, floodwater reaches Nong Bua district and affects about a thousand local residents.
In Sukhothai province, Governor Jakrin Plianwong inspected flood damage in Pak Khwae sub-district in the provincial seat, heavily hit by flooding from the Yom River.
When flooding ended there, the provincial governor ordered the quick repair of local roads.
Witthaya Phewphong, governor of Ayutthaya, said 825 homes in Sena and Phak Hai districts were flooded. Their homes are located close to the Noi River and are now surrounded by floodwaters 10-50 centimetres deep.
The Royal Irrigation Department reported that water levels of the Ping, Wang and Nan rivers were dropping and it could control the height of the adjoining Chao Phraya River by directing some water to irrigation systems on both sides of the river.
