cidents reported in the official documents, dated since
as far as early 90’s. More recently, according to the
Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation
(DPM), Thailand has experienced the major floods
in 2011, which severely affected residences around
Chaopraya river basin. The total estimated cost in
terms of property lost due to the event amounted to
1.44 trillion Baht, hence considered as one of the most
costly catastrophes in the nation’s history. This striking
event as a result was placed 4th in the most severe
disasters world-wide ranking table [2]. Pathumthani
had also been greatly suffered by this event. The
economic affliction are so far estimated to be over 0.1
trillion Baht. Its extent covered 7 districts, 60 subdistricts
and 522 (or 98.7%) villag-es.