Pattaya halts beach restoration again

PATTAYA:--The on-again, mostly-off-again effort to stop erosion from wiping Pattaya Beach off the map is off again after Chulalongkorn University consultants, for the third time, bungled the job of finding the right sand.

 

Restarted earlier this month after a 15-month suspension, the sand-refill project at the far northern end of Pattaya Beach was halted March 20 when the Marine Department decreed that the sand brought in from Koh Rang, a small island south of Koh Chang, doesn’t match Pattaya’s beachfront well enough.

 

Marine Director Eakaraj Kantaro said no more of the Trat Province sand will be brought to Pattaya and the entire project will be sent back, once again, to consultants at Chulalongkorn University who twice before recommended the wrong sand.

 

Previous contractor Kijakarn Ruamka Marine Construction Co. restarted work on the 483-million-baht project – which has ballooned far over that first estimate due to the many stops, starts and new-contractor contracts – in October 2016 following a 13-month hiatus.

 

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14 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

Marine Director Eakaraj Kantaro said no more of the Trat Province sand will be brought to Pattaya and the entire project will be sent back, once again, to consultants at Chulalongkorn University who twice before recommended the wrong sand.

Why pay good money to send the sand back when Mother Nature can and will do this - absolutely free!

You have to laugh...or else you'll cry !

37 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

the sand brought in from Koh Rang, a small island south of Koh Chang, doesn’t match Pattaya’s beachfront well enough.

 

Probably not enough trash and cigarette butts in the new sand being delivered for it to blend in.

The ramshackle buildings at the southern end of Beach Road (part of the brilliantly labelled Beach Nourishment Programme) give the impression of no work whatsoever being done, never mind suspended, and purely fulfilling the purpose of a contractor scam on local government funds. (Pause for some choice photos to be uploaded please)

3 hours ago, nikmar said:

Might be handy to find the right kind of sand in the sea near the beach.

2 hours ago, SheungWan said:

The ramshackle buildings at the southern end of Beach Road (part of the brilliantly labelled Beach Nourishment Programme) give the impression of no work whatsoever being done, never mind suspended, and purely fulfilling the purpose of a contractor scam on local government funds. (Pause for some choice photos to be uploaded please)

No photos, but 4 rubber duck excavators are currently in full swing. Makes for a nice view from the seaview rooms at the Dusit Thani.

A slur post has been removed.

If there were an award for the most inept government management in Thailand (SE Asia?), Pattaya would win hands down, or hands out.... I suppose argument could be made "people get the government they deserve"

Who cares about the color of the sand. I am sure tourist won't.  Hey the sand is the wrong color.

Big f...deal. Sounds like a make work project.

 

While the right sand is a problem, I'm sure the flow of funds for the project isn't a problem.

38 minutes ago, Beats56 said:

Who cares about the color of the sand. I am sure tourist won't.  Hey the sand is the wrong color.

Big f...deal. Sounds like a make work project.

 

I like and respect your "make work", can do attitude Beats56. Kudos to you krub. 

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives!.....like a soap opera!

Edited March 30, 20188 yr by PatOngo

More brown envelopes needed to shore up the sea front me thinks ( no pun intended )

7 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives!.....like a soap opera!

Blimey! An hourglass that could accommodate 400K m³ - that I would love to see PatOngo krub. And of course if that was the case, I can now see how this project might indeed cost ฿483-million.

 

Ironically this huge hourglass thingey idea of yours PatOngo could indeed be Pattaya's salvation. As there are plenty of people that visit Cawker City, in Kansas each year - just to look at and admire; the world's largest ball of twine! 

zzzzzzzzzzzzz...just build a new mall...we only have 7

It’s hard to make dry sand to look the same colour as wet sand, maybe that’s why they got the University involved to solve this problem. Good luck with that . 

7 hours ago, marginline said:

Why pay good money to send the sand back when Mother Nature can and will do this - absolutely free!

this is thailand.......

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10 hours ago, darksidedog said:

Probably not enough trash and cigarette butts in the new sand being delivered for it to blend in.

 

That's exactly why the solution has always been to get the sand from Jomtien beach. Shoulda grabbed it a few years ago. With a bit o' luck it'll just wash back down to Jomtien and then they can do it all over again.

18 hours ago, SheungWan said:

The ramshackle buildings at the southern end of Beach Road (part of the brilliantly labelled Beach Nourishment Programme) give the impression of no work whatsoever being done, never mind suspended, and purely fulfilling the purpose of a contractor scam on local government funds. (Pause for some choice photos to be uploaded please)

And it truly smelled unpleasant there when I walked past recently.

22 hours ago, SheungWan said:

(Pause for some choice photos to be uploaded please)

I thought you would be uploading photos ?

here are a few of mine from 2016.

 

 

Edited March 31, 20188 yr by johng

On ‎30‎/‎03‎/‎2018 at 10:58 AM, marginline said:

Why pay good money to send the sand back when Mother Nature can and will do this - absolutely free!

Well, no it won't in this case.  There were the usual deposits of sand out at sea that would have replenished the beach naturally, but they were dredged for building sand.  That's where the beach sand is going - to fill up these "reservoirs", as long as they're empty, that's where the beach sand will continue to go.  

 

There is a natural cycle involved, but they removed a part of it and broke the cycle.

16 hours ago, johng said:

I thought you would be uploading photos ?

here are a few of mine from 2016.

I would say that the big difference between your photo from 2016 and now  is that in your photo the gate is open.

I guess they could have brought a few buckets the first trip to check

On 4/1/2018 at 2:01 AM, SheungWan said:

I would say that the big difference between your photo from 2016 and now  is that in your photo the gate is open.

You are correct !  gate is closed. 

 

Today's photos,same as 2 years ago except different...

 

Northern end.

 

Southern end.

 

Sand suppletion at the Dusit side has started already a few weeks ago. No idea about the amount in m3 but with intermittent intervals sand is pumped using a floating pipe from the platform somewhat outside the beach area.

On ‎3‎/‎30‎/‎2018 at 2:36 PM, hyku1147 said:

So, guys trained to be logical, incisive, and prescient - are worried that the color doesn't match? LOL

 

On ‎3‎/‎30‎/‎2018 at 3:38 PM, Beats56 said:

Who cares about the color of the sand. I am sure tourist won't.  Hey the sand is the wrong color.

Big f...deal. Sounds like a make work project.

 

Where did it say that the colour was wrong?

37 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

 

Where did it say that the colour was wrong?

Just says, "found to not match Pattaya’s own sand well enough and a new source was needed."

Might be more an issue of granulation or texture than color.

Color is more a function of the geology from where the sand was created. If the geology for the sand brought in from Koh Rang south of Koh Chang is different from the geology of Pattaya beach sand, color might not match.