on the Cheow Lan Lake
by Michelle Meenawong
Title
on the Cheow Lan Lake
Artist
Michelle Meenawong
Medium
Photograph - Metal Print
Description
Cheow Lan Lake or Rajjaprabha Dam Reservoir, is in Khao Sok National Park in Surat Thani Province, Thailand. It is an 165-square-kilometre (64 sq mi) artificial lake, created in 1982 by the construction of Rajjaprapha Dam by the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) as a source of electricity.
Rajjaprabha Dam, meaning "the light of the kingdom", got its name in May 1987 from the king at the opening ceremony on the king's 60th birthday. Before that day it was called the "Cheow Lan Project". It was a so-called multi-purpose project for power generation, flood control, irrigation and fishery. In 1982, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) started to create the Rajjaprabha Dam and block the Klong Saeng River. It took about one year until they completely flooded the 165 square kilometres (64 sq mi) basin. To flood this large area, 385 families of Ban Chiew Lan village were resettled. Rubber and other farming opportunities such as poultry, fruit orchards, vegetable farming, and reservoir fishery were introduced together with the needed training programs and credit facilities to sustain the farmers' income.
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