Estate operators erect flood dykes against future deluges-hesco bastion

Specification

The two estates employed nearly 500,000 people pre-crisis.

Energy Minister Pichai Naripthaphan said the government must ensure the industrial sector’s rapid recovery, as the devastating floods have rendered massive numbers of workers jobless.

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.

In a bid to speed up the pumping of water,hexagonal wire meshes, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, PTT Plc and private energy firms have jointly built 140 water drainage systems, each one comprising a water pump, tank and pipeline.

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, strongly contributing to their popularity with troops and flood fighters, is the quick and easy setup. Previously, people had to fill sandbags, 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, unfolding up to several hundred meters of barrier in minutes, ready for filling with soil by a backhoe.

Protection

Filled with sand,树池盖, 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.

Witaya Launglueyos,Joint Press Conference of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra with Mr.Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-Gen-hesc, the senior general manager of Rojana Industrial Park Plc, said many factories have started cleaning up,石笼网, with three of them including Minebea and Nidec conducting test runs.

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.

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, he said.

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 mesh 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.

Construction on the dykes will begin next month and be finished by mid-2012.

Prior to the start of draining, microorganisms were introduced to help clean up the water, Gen Chainarong added.

Rojana finally dried out on Wednesday,Thai PM leaves hospital, visiting Vietnam Wednesday afternoon-black annealed wire, and all of its 240 factories will resume operations next month.

Two leading industrial estate operators plan to build a strong, permanent dyke around their properties to curb any future flooding.