The Khlong Lat Pho Floodgate Project was in effect a canal reconstruction project. It shortened the river bend at Bang Krachao from 18 kilometres to only 600 metres, thus lowering the water level as much as six centimetres and shortening the duration of high-water levels by two days.
Sucharit Koontanakulvong of Chulalongkorn University’s Department of Water Resource Engineering is full of praise for the royal flood prevention projects. He points to their efficiency in draining the water even during the major flood of 2011, which was considerably more severe than the inundations of 1983 or 1995.