News Forum - Flood at dangerous level in Rangsit after water pumps fail

[Thaiger]

Flood levels in the Rangsit district of Pathum Thani province near Bangkok are at a dangerous level after nine water pumps broke down. It will be three days before they are repaired. The official district website revealed the level of water in the Rangsit Canal had risen to 1.8 metres from 1.78 metres this morning. Rangsit had 20 water pumps in operation but nine of them broke down. The director of the water management project in the southern part of Rangsit, Bowdaeng Takaew, revealed yesterday that the outsourcing company that took care of the water pump repairs ran out of […]

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[Noble_Design]

IMHO Pathum Thani is one of the worst run province in Thailand. Despite the revenues from Pathum's sizeable factories and industries the khlong/canals were hardly dredged to increase it's depth and now as can be seen most of the pumps aren't even working.

[Prosaap]

No surprise its impossible to predict that a pump brake down so why keep spare parts or check them before the rain season look a head is just not a thai thing

[Graham]

PPP and zero maintenance, I mean why would anyone want to check something is working before you actually need to use it. 555

TIT.

[Giltee]

For something so vital they should have 30 pumps with 10 on standby along with a maintenance program to keep the pumps in good working order. It’s not rocket science. Perhaps the money for maintenance has been siphoned into someone’s account. 

[HolyCowCm]

We can give it a fail same as the Thai give the Gov a complete fail. What is the difference? One is seasonal and a little bit of time with repeated failed pumps and a bad working system, and the other is 365 days ongoing and knows how to siphon everything montetary day in and day out.

[RichardR]

45% of pumps fail. No one will be held responsible and next year rainy season it might happen again. The ability to learn from mistakes seems to be lost with the lack of consequence for actions. If only the ones that are able to forsee the future and anticipate it were not corruptable this country might actual progress.

[Scooter]

15 hours ago, Prosaap said:

No surprise its impossible to predict that a pump brake down so why keep spare parts or check them before the rain season look a head is just not a thai thing

Completely untrue. I assume you have never heard of Planned Preventative Maintenance, Condition Monitoring, 2 year operating spares. These are all standard practices in industry.

[TWS60]

The director of the water management project in the southern part of Rangsit, Bowdaeng Takaew, revealed yesterday that the outsourcing company that took care of the water pump repairs ran out of spare parts. Bowdaeng reported that the spare parts would be delivered from abroad, and delivery takes about three days.

S**t happens, but it would be interesting to see the scope of work and compliance/performance standards in this government service contract.

 

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The director of the water management project in the southern part of Rangsit, Bowdaeng Takaew, revealed yesterday that the outsourcing company that took care of the water pump repairs ran out of spare parts.

So he cancels the contract and then resigns... NOT