Will environmental impacts affect the livelihoods of the Klong Daan residents?
6. We take the long-term view that there will be substantial long-term benefits for Samut Prakarn, including Klong Daan. These benefits include improved health, improved fishing, mussel farming and agriculture. The overall environmental condition of the coastal waters in the Samut Prakarn area will improve, by way of reduced levels of toxicity and heavy metals being discharged into the coastal environment. This has been the experience in other parts of the world through environmental clean-up projects, for example, Port Philip Bay in Australia 7. It is true that there will be some minor adverse impacts on a small number of people. Those Klong Daan residents, for example, who live outside the urban area will only benefit in the medium to long term from the improvements to the quality of the coastal waters. We recognize that the buffer zone which will be established at the outfall (point of discharge) will adversely affect the community, but every effort is being made to minimize the neg
