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Naklua canal dredging set for completion Oct. 26

Deputy Mayor Verawat Khakhay leads city engineers to inspect the Naklua canal near the Jake Houy football stadium.

Teerarak Suthathiwong
Rainy season will be nearly over, but water should flow much more freely in a key Naklua drainage canal once workers finish dredging it Oct. 26.
Deputy Mayor Verawat Khakhay and city engineers went to the canal near the Jake Houy football stadium Aug. 21 to check progress on the 2 million baht restoration work.
Intana Construction Co. is scooping out bricks, rocks, dirt and garbage from the 4-kilomter canal to better handle storm runoff.
Contractors also are creating cache basins to hold some of the water to decrease flooding from the canal overflowing, as well as clear footpaths along the canal that have been blocked by the canal’s borders.
However, work will not be complete until late October, which traditionally marks the end of rainy season.
Still, the deputy mayor said, the canal traditionally carries massive amounts of water and dredging the canal will benefit this year and years to come.

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