Rimmer Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 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. Read more: http://www.pattayamail.com/news/pattaya-halts-beach-restoration-205822 -- © Copyright Pattaya Mail 2018-03-30 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post marginline Posted March 30, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted March 30, 2018 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! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post johng Posted March 30, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted March 30, 2018 You have to laugh...or else you'll cry ! 4 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post darksidedog Posted March 30, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted March 30, 2018 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. 11 1 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheungWan Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 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) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hansnl Posted March 30, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted March 30, 2018 3 hours ago, nikmar said: Might be handy to find the right kind of sand in the sea near the beach. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
champers Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksidedog Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 A slur post has been removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Emster23 Posted March 30, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted March 30, 2018 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" 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beats56 Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Srikcir Posted March 30, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted March 30, 2018 While the right sand is a problem, I'm sure the flow of funds for the project isn't a problem. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marginline Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatOngo Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 (edited) Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives!.....like a soap opera! Edited March 30, 2018 by PatOngo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cake Monster Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 More brown envelopes needed to shore up the sea front me thinks ( no pun intended ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marginline Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mok199 Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 zzzzzzzzzzzzz...just build a new mall...we only have 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeyrobot Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 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 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essox essox Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 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....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JSixpack Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 (edited) 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, 2018 by johng Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultName Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheungWan Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redline Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 I guess they could have brought a few buckets the first trip to check Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halfaboy Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Weird Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srikcir Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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