River banks and islands eroding
River banks and islands eroding
Anyone who travels along the river or on islands in the rivers, will notice erosion in some places. The leading end of islands and the outside of bends in the river tend to erode.
In some places you may see parts of the road have fallen in the river. So that part of the road has had to be relocated.
One island loses maybe 2 meters from the leading end each year. A track along that edge has had to be relocated in some places. One house which is only a few meters from the water now sits vacant. The family still owns it, and has fruit trees growing there, but in a few years it may be gone.
In another place I watched a house be relocated. It was a wooden house. They put boards under the posts, and rolled it on pipes. They used big jacks. I asked them why. They said the river bank is eroding, and that land will soon be gone. A little further along, the track fell into the river. They knocked down fences and relocated it through peoples properties.
Spare a thought for the neighbors who could not afford to move. They will be forced to do something sometime soon. The land will be gone, they can not sell it.
Anyone thinking about buying land on an island, or along the river, observe the erosion patterns before purchasing.
In some places you may see parts of the road have fallen in the river. So that part of the road has had to be relocated.
One island loses maybe 2 meters from the leading end each year. A track along that edge has had to be relocated in some places. One house which is only a few meters from the water now sits vacant. The family still owns it, and has fruit trees growing there, but in a few years it may be gone.
In another place I watched a house be relocated. It was a wooden house. They put boards under the posts, and rolled it on pipes. They used big jacks. I asked them why. They said the river bank is eroding, and that land will soon be gone. A little further along, the track fell into the river. They knocked down fences and relocated it through peoples properties.
Spare a thought for the neighbors who could not afford to move. They will be forced to do something sometime soon. The land will be gone, they can not sell it.
Anyone thinking about buying land on an island, or along the river, observe the erosion patterns before purchasing.
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Re: River banks and islands eroding
Yes. Fluvial geomorphology is real!
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Re: River banks and islands eroding
Keep on dredging that river bed sand.
It it illegal but it still done all over the place, that causes the riverbanks to erode quickly as they are essentially falling into the river.
It it illegal but it still done all over the place, that causes the riverbanks to erode quickly as they are essentially falling into the river.
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Re: River banks and islands eroding
Damn fine point Jack. This especially evident in the current flooded area just over the Mekong bridge in Kampong Cham. They keep on digging sand from the river bed even during the flood. The trucks that carry the wet sand are highly overweight and in turn tear up the main highway.
As my old Cajun bait seller used to say, "I opes you luck.
Re: River banks and islands eroding
Can't find one similar for the Mekong, but here's the meander of the Padma River in Bangladesh from January 2, 1988 to January 20, 2018
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https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/image ... -the-padma
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https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/image ... -the-padma
Re: River banks and islands eroding
When the water level was high, heavy vehicles were banned from road along the river in Kampong Cham City to minimize the likelihood of damage. The water level has dropped and this ban has been lifted.
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Re: River banks and islands eroding
I was referring to the Tbong Kmum side where sand was indeed carted up to the national highway.
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Re: River banks and islands eroding
Not only do they rape their own country...presumably they don't even pay tax on the real income...tax that could benefit their own countrymen.
"The controversy concerns UN data showing $752 million in imports of sand from Cambodia to Singapore since 2007, despite the Kingdom only reporting about $5 million in exports to the small island nation. Singapore’s Trade Ministry statistics closely mirror the UN’s data."
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dredging-answers
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