Mae Klong
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| Mae Klong River | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Thailand |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | Bay of Bangkok |
• location | Samut Songkhram |
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• elevation | Template:Infobox river/calcunit |
| Length | Template:Infobox river/calcunit |
Basin size | Template:Infobox river/calcunit |
| • minimum | Template:Infobox river/calcunit |
| • average | Template:Infobox river/calcunit |
| • maximum | Template:Infobox river/calcunit |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Khwae Yai River, Khwae Noi River |
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The Mae Klong (Template:Langx, RTGS: Script error: No such module "lang"., Script error: No such module "IPA".), sometimes spelled Meklong, is a river in western Thailand. The river begins in Kanchanaburi Province and flows across Ratchaburi Province and Samut Songkhram Province.
Course
The origin of the river is in Kanchanaburi town, at the confluence of the Khwae Noi (Khwae Sai Yok) and the Khwae Yai River (Khwae Si Sawat) rivers, having their sources in the eastern side of the Tenasserim Hills. It flows roughly southeastwards and southwards, often forming meanders across a wide floodplain. The river passes by the towns of Ban Pong and Ratchaburi in Ratchaburi Province. Finally it ends in a swampy delta by the town of Samut Songkhram and empties into the northwestern shore of the Bay of Bangkok, Gulf of Thailand.[1] The main reservoir on the river is formed by the Mae Klong Dam.[2]
Environment
The Mae Klong river basin has a tropical savanna climate, and is subject to two major thermal systems, the southwest and the northeast monsoons. The southwest monsoon brings moisture up from the Indian Ocean beginning in May and climaxing with heavy rains in September and October. These heavy rains are supplemented by cyclones out of the South China Sea during the same two months. The rising of the winds of the northeast monsoon bring an end to this rainfall. Almost 80% of the annual rainfall in the basin occurs in the half-year from May to October. Total annual rainfall ranges from 1,000 millimetres (39 in) on the coast to 2,400 millimetres (94 in) at the higher elevations.[3] Temperatures in the basin range from lows of 18 °C to highs of 38 °C.[3]
Giant freshwater stingrays inhabit the river. A sudden die-off of forty-five of these rays in September 2016 threatened them with local extinction. Authorities have suspected that pollution was the cause of the die-off.[4][5][6][7] It was later attributed to molasses waste water which leaked from a sugar/ethanol factory in Ban Pong District of Ratchaburi Province on 30 September that continued until 7 October. High levels of free ammonia killed the animals.[8] The Pollution Control Department will sue Rajburi Ethanol Co for allowing molasses wastewater to leak.[8][9]
References
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- ^ Google Maps
- ^ Mae Klong Mini Hydro Power Plant, (Kanchanaburi)
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies (1996). "Existing Environmental Conditions: Physical Resources". Final Report for Environmental Impact Assessment of Ratchaburi Power Plant Project (PDF). World Bank. pp. 3-1 – 3-145. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 July 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rujivanarom, Pratch (13 October 2016). "Authorities told to tackle water pollution to prevent deaths of aquatic animals". The Nation. Archived from the original on October 13, 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Giant stingrays in Thailand's Mae Klong River facing extinction". Straits Times. THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK. 9 October 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Atthakor, Ploenpote (7 October 2016). "Alarm over dead stingrays in Mae Klong River". Bangkok Post. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Howard, Brian Clark (10 November 2016). "70 Car-Size Stingrays Die Mysteriously". National Geographic. Archived from the original on November 11, 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Tests prove ethanol plant leak killed giant stingrays". Bangkok Post. 21 October 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Atthakor, Ploenpote (19 October 2016). "Environment loses as rays of hope dim". Editorial. Bangkok Post. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
External links
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- Maeklong River - FishSiam.com
- The Life at Mae Klong River Thailand
- Time-travelling along the Mae Klong...
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