Waste water flowing freely onto Krabi’s beaches

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Waste water flowing freely onto Krabi’s beaches

The inspection followed a complaint from people that they got itchy after swimming at the beach. The water from around the foreshore area also smells bad, affecting the tourism image of the province.

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

  

Krabi Vice Governor, Pol Capt Apinan Puakpong, with a team of military officers, Krabi Office of Natural Resources and Environment and Krabi Provincial Public Health Office, inspected hotels, resorts and restaurants along Tub Kaeg Beach and found that there are five 5-star hotels as well as one restaurant that have their waste water pipe releasing directly into the sea.

 

The inspection followed a complaint from people that they got itchy after swimming at the beach. The water from around the foreshore area also smells bad, affecting the tourism image of the province.

 

The team collected samples of the wastewater from all the places to be sent to the Natural Resources and Environment Office Region 15 and ordered all venues to remove the wastewater pipes that encroach the beach area.

 

Full story:  https://www.phuketgazette.net/news/waste-water-flowing-freely-onto-krabis-beaches

 

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[Get Real]

It´s all about the profit. Just can´t spend any money on a waste water facility and proper connection to it. And the it was the image again?

[quandow]

I always wonder about these stories - are they talking grey water or are there floaters and sinkers swimming in it, too?

 

Is that guy in the photo grabbing a Hankey?

Edited January 28, 2018 by quandow

[Suttisan]

Ended up in  hospital with an inner ear infection after a dip in the drink in bang saen, shame as i love swimming in the sea, but water in most resort areas is full of crap, at least the jellyfish end up being plastic bags though. 

[Thian]

I will never forget about 25 years ago when i looked in the open drains in Krabi (covered by a grid), i saw millions of cockroaches running in there and since i wasn't so happy with that.

 

Also i didn't even know we can swim in the sea at Krabi, we went to Riley beach for that by longtailboats which were very dangerous.

[upena]

Every beach in Thailand

[chicowoodduck]

Wow, could be worse....like swimming in or near the bay in Pattaya....??

DSCN0156.AVI

[peperobi]

Have a look at Samui, the situation there is worse than in Krabi.

[Ulic]

No surprise here. What would be a surprise is if all the sewers were

hooked up correctly. 

[Destiny1990]

Well the real problem are the couple of cigarette buds. 

[wavemanwww]

Five Star Hotels with a zero Star Toilet and environment rating. Shouldn't that  affect the hotels star rating on Agoda and other hotel websites?

 

Guests pay top dollar for their room but swim in the shitty sea in front of the hotel where they maybe swimming among their own poop.

 

May as well go back to the hotel and treat the toilet like it's their own private mini swimming pool! At least there is air conditioning there.

 

[ChrisY1]

Most buildings, large and small, simply have septic tanks under them...large buildings have banks of tanks.....but the effluent that overflows after the solids have massed at the tank bases, flows into the drainage system..

Sewage plants and sewage infrastructure hardly exist here......and those that are working are grossly under capacity.

 

[smew]

Pattaya beaches are doomed and now more of the same on Krabi, really good for future tourists,...?  at least the young girls  will keep them coming until its known that most men get ripped off and murdered even

[toughlove]

Pattaya beaches are doomed and now more of the same on Krabi, really good for future tourists,...?  at least the young girls  will keep them coming until its known that most men get ripped off and murdered even

Dude bash away all you like but how do "most" men get ripped off as tourists. For 1k baht short time I think you got that back the front

Murder? Oh my goodness because dozens are killed each day

Snap out of it!

[farcanell]

1 hour ago, Destiny1990 said:

Well the real problem are the couple of cigarette buds. 

No problem... the sewage will wash them away.

[thaichiro]

For the price of two unnecessary subs and defective dirigibles they could set up dozens of water treatment facilities. But the military brass can’t get their sticky fingers on THAT money... or can they.

[ExpatOilWorker]

2 hours ago, chicowoodduck said:

Wow, could be worse....like swimming in or near the bay in Pattaya....??

DSCN0156.AVI

Looks like your avatar just had a quick dip in that water.

[Bundooman]

I hope the above photo doesn't depict one of the "5-star" hotels.........!

[natway09]

Said it before, will say it again,,,, here they are promoting tourism for MORE punters when the infrastructure

is not able to cope with one third of what they have now.

The amazing thing here is the health department is either doing nothing or being paid to look the other way

They will kill the goose that is laying the golden egg

[hhinhh]

Can you publish the hotel names.

Then these hotels should be mentioned in Tripadvisor which will hopefully come to a response they deserve.

[Searat7]

I never put my head under water at any Thai beaches.....look at the huge waste of money to upgrade Dongtan Beach area (except for toilets which remain disgusting). That money could have been used to upgrade waste treatment facility. 

[Lee4Life]

So...by waste water, do they mean grey water or toilet water? Or both?

[r136dg]

Like others said, no surprise. I vowed never to step foot anywhere in the gulf back in 1999. Even jogging on the sand can be dangerous. Total bummer, I also love the ocean. 

[KKr]

3 hours ago, toughlove said:

Dude bash away all you like but how do "most" men get ripped off as tourists. For 1k baht short time I think you got that back the front

Murder? Oh my goodness because dozens are killed each day

Snap out of it!

1k is pretty rich, so I heard. ;-)

[KKr]

6 hours ago, chicowoodduck said:

Wow, could be worse....like swimming in or near the bay in Pattaya....??

DSCN0156.AVI

no shit !
have to travel abroad to go swimming it seems ... yuk

[toughlove]

1k is pretty rich, so I heard. ;-)

Yes it's true in Hua hin. You could probably deduct 50 baht for every year of 40.. Should bring it back to 500 baht average [emoji3]

[MyFriend You]

11 hours ago, chicowoodduck said:

Wow, could be worse....like swimming in or near the bay in Pattaya....??

DSCN0156.AVI

Thanx for the AVI, next time someone says how clean the beaches are in Pattaya I am going to hit them with this  hahaha

[MyFriend You]

6 hours ago, Lee4Life said:

So...by waste water, do they mean grey water or toilet water? Or both?

whats the difference, it all comes out of the toilet one way or another, please don't give me the crap "but gray water has been treated"  you wouldn;t drink it nor would I.

[gk10002000]

When I was in Ao Nong, the water looked OK but the sea floor was very slimy, as if something was covering it.  The next day I took long tail boat over and around to Railay beach and that sand was white sand.  So I think that Ao Nong undersea bottom was covered with effluent, maybe not all shit and stuff but certainly something, fertilizer runoff or whatever.

[Sir Dude]

Haha, that guy with the watch holding the phone in the OP photo looks like he's had way to many soapies.

Edited January 30, 2018 by Sir Dude