Estate operators erect flood dykes against future deluges
Published: 3/12/2011 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: Business
Two leading industrial estate operators plan to build a strong, permanent dyke around their properties to curb any future flooding.
Rojana Industrial Park Plc with one estate in Ayutthaya will spend 2 billion baht to erect a 67-kilometre dyke, while Nava Nakorn Plc in Pathum Thani plans has earmarked 600 million baht for a 20-km barrier around its industrial promotion zone in Pathum Thani.
The Japan International Cooperation Agency will advise on both projects,Expanded Metal Mesh, which are aimed at restoring investor confidence.
Construction on the dykes will begin next month and be finished by mid-2012.
Funding will be via soft loans at 0.1% interest from the state-owned Government Savings Bank under the government’s 15-billion-baht aid programme for flood-affected industrial estate operators.
Energy Minister Pichai Naripthaphan said the government must ensure the industrial sector’s rapid recovery,Barbed Wire Machine, as the devastating floods have rendered massive numbers of workers jobless.
The two estates employed nearly 500,密型钢格板,000 people pre-crisis.
In a bid to speed up the pumping of water,不锈钢硬丝,Workers, bosses get fiscal relief-steel wire mesh, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand,Flood of sanctions fails to halt Syrian bloodshed-电焊石笼网, PTT Plc and private energy firms have jointly built 140 water drainage systems, each one comprising a water pump,Tunnelling toward a city with no more flood woes-雷诺护垫, tank and pipeline.
The industrial estates started draining water two weeks ago.
Rojana finally dried out on Wednesday, and all of its 240 factories will resume operations next month.
Nava Nakorn should be dry sometime next week,Hexagonal Wire Mesh, and all 227 Nava Nakorn factories will also restart in January.
Witaya Launglueyos,stainless steel back, the senior general manager of Rojana Industrial Park Plc,mesh wire, said many factories have started cleaning up,stainless steel back, with three of them including Minebea and Nidec conducting test runs.
Gen Chainarong Noonpakdee, Nava Nakorn Plc’s board chairman said his company will ask the government for a tax holiday since the cost of the dyke is relatively high.Clients will also be subject to a surcharge in their monthly utility bills to help finance the structure,black annealed wire suppliers, he said.
Prior to the start of draining, microorganisms were introduced to help clean up the water, Gen Chainarong added.
Military Barriers/Hesco Bastions
Information
The QIAOSHI’s Military Barriers or Hesco Bastions is a modern gabion used for flood control and military fortification. It is made of a collapsible wire meshes container and heavy duty fabric liner, and used as a temporary to semi-permanent dike or barrier against blast or small-arms. One of the less heralded life- and labor-saving devices of war, it is used on nearly every United States Military base in Iraq as well as on NATO bases in Afghanistan.
Originally designed for use on beaches and marshes for erosion and flood control, the Hesco Bastion quickly became a popular security device in the 1990s.
Assembly
Assembling the Hesco Bastion entails unfolding it and (if available) using a front end loader to fill it with sand, dirt or gravel. The placement of the barrier is generally very similar to the placement of a sandbag barrier or earth berm except that room must generally be allowed for the equipment used to fill the barrier. The main advantage of Military Barrier,蛇篭, strongly contributing to their popularity with troops and flood fighters,perforated mesh, is the quick and easy setup. Previously,H.M. King Bhumibol Provides Relief Packages to Flood Victims-Hesco barrier, people had to fill sandbags,楼梯钢格板, a slow undertaking, with one worker filling about 20 sandbags per hour. Workers using Military Barrier and a front end loader can do ten times the work of those using sandbags.
The Hesco Barrier come in a variety of sizes. Most of the barriers can also be stacked, and they are shipped collapsed in compact sets. Example dimensions of typical configurations are 46″ x 36″ x 32 (1.4m x 1.1m x 9.8m) to 7 x 5 x 100 (2.1m x 1.5m x 30m).
A new system of Hesco Bastion developed specially for military use is deployed from a container, which is dragged along the line of ground where the barrier is to be formed,防洪墙-镀锌钢格板, unfolding up to several hundred meters of barrier in minutes, ready for filling with soil by a backhoe.
Protection
Filled with sand, 60 centimetres (24 inches) of barrier thickness will stop rifle bullets and shell fragments. It takes 1.5 metres (five feet) of thickness to prevent penetration by a rocket propelled grenade round. Approximately 1.2 metres (four feet) of thickness provides protection against most car bombs.
Specification
