MoNRE Shuts Ladkrabang Flood Shelter, Returns Residents Home

Natural Resources and Environment Minister Suchat Chomglin announced the closure of the Ladkrabang temporary flood shelter on October 9, 2025, after residents were safely returned home. He said ministry staff had been with the flood‑affected community from the first day, providing food, water, medical transport, and shelter. The minister emphasized that the mission continues with cleanup and recovery to restore normal life for residents.

Suchat said that throughout the flood, officials from all departments of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment worked together, not only offering immediate aid but also looking after people’s livelihoods in every aspect — supplying enough food and drinking water, caring for evacuees, facilitating transportation, and rushing patients to hospitals for timely treatment.

He added, “From the very first day people suffered from the flood, our staff never abandoned them. We looked after food, living conditions, patient transfers, and evacuees. Now that the water has receded, our work is not over because true help means not just getting people out of the flood but helping them return to live in their own homes again.”

When the water situation began to improve, the ministry shifted to recovery operations immediately — cleaning homes, roads, and public spaces, collecting debris and damaged materials, and removing lingering waste to restore a clean and safe environment as quickly as possible.

On this day, the fourth day of cleanup and restoration, 90 ministry officials — 60 from the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation and 30 from the Royal Forest Department — joined 100 students and alumni from Uthenthawaii University. They spread out in the Romklao Housing Zone 4 community to collect and haul away flood‑damaged items and waste, and to eliminate filth and pollutants, aiming to make the environment clean and orderly again.

At the same time, ministry officials continued to look after the evacuees as a final duty — preparing meals, monitoring living conditions, and helping move belongings and necessities to facilitate their return home before officially closing the Ladkrabang temporary shelter. This marked the end of the shelter‑based care mission after all agencies had collectively supported the community through the crisis.

Suchat stressed that the operation demonstrated the strength of “MoNRE as one” — every unit ready to reach out to people in distress and not stopping when the water recedes, but pressing ahead with area restoration until residents can go back to their normal lives.