Embankment between canal and floodplain
Earthen embankment separating the foreground-canal from the floodplain in the background. At one stage, this floodplain was part of an immense lagoon, called Songkhla Lake. Over the years, human-interference through land development, i.e. building and backfilling, caused sediment to build up and shrink the inland sea to its present area: 1,040 km2. To put that into perspective, Singapore is 733.1 km2. (Areas from Wikipedia).
Embankment between canal and floodplain
Earthen embankment separating the foreground-canal from the floodplain in the background. At one stage, this floodplain was part of an immense lagoon, called Songkhla Lake. Over the years, human-interference through land development, i.e. building and backfilling, caused sediment to build up and shrink the inland sea to its present area: 1,040 km2. To put that into perspective, Singapore is 733.1 km2. (Areas from Wikipedia).