Pattaya Beach restoration resumes, August completion promised

PATTAYA:--After a month’s delay, the rebuilding of Pattaya Beach is underway again with Mayor Anan Charoenchasri vowing the long-delayed project finally will be completed by August.

 

Restarted in early March following 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 Kwian, a small island off Pattaya’s coast approximately 10 kilometers to the west of Koh Larn, didn’t match Pattaya’s beachfront well enough.

 

The entire project plan was sent back to consultants at Chulalongkorn University who twice before had recommended the wrong sand. This time, however, they maintain they made the right call.

 

Hauling of sand from Koh Rang Kwian has resumed with the stockpile stored in barges resting on landfill poured about a kilometer off shore. The sand then will be hauled in to the beach as needed.

 

The sand is darker than that native to Pattaya, but the consultants insisted that once it was spread on the beach, the sun would bleach it to a whiteness that matches Pattaya’s own sand within a few days. Contractors who have already placed the new sand on about 100 meters of the northernmost shoreline concur.

 

Read more: http://www.pattayamail.com/news/pattaya-beach-restoration-resumes-august-completion-promised-208921

 

-- © Copyright Pattaya Mail 2018-05-04

 

Will it ever be finished ?

 

2016

2018

Finished in August, but in what year?

He should have said "We'll have it done right after the election"

That barrier is going to make next month's firework festival a bit of a bugger to watch.  

Firework festival ? Is it back ?usually in November.

13 minutes ago, johng said:

Firework festival ? Is it back ?usually in November.

8-9 June

4 hours ago, Rimmer said:

The sand is darker than that native to Pattaya, but the consultants insisted that once it was spread on the beach, the sun would bleach it to a whiteness that matches Pattaya’s own sand within a few days

Once they bring a lorry load of syringes, condoms, broken bottles and styrofoam containers, and mix them in.....

Finished or not, it won't entice me to swim in that cesspit of a sea.  But, no doubt the tourists'll be overjoyed.

15 hours ago, johng said:

Firework festival ? Is it back ?usually in November.

I saw one advertised for early June by Inspire.

With the recent heavy thunderstorms I wonder if there will be a delay........

and what about the rainy season floods??

22 hours ago, Rimmer said:

Marine Department decreed that the sand brought in from Koh Rang Kwian, a small island off Pattaya’s coast approximately 10 kilometers to the west of Koh Larn, didn’t match Pattaya’s beachfront well enough.

Was it too clean ? 

18 hours ago, johng said:

Firework festival ? Is it back ?usually in November.

Pattaya International Fireworks Festival 2018 – 8th to 9th June

You can replace sand but you cant replace hundreds of billions of gallons of filthy water commonly known as The Gulf of Thailand.  The Gulf was doomed years ago when corrupt officials allowed factories to dump all their waste in the Gulf. Theyre probably still doing it every night.

Regardless, Thailand is now paying a heavy irreversible price for its corruption and stupidity.Cant fix it now.

How many ignorant Russians and Chinese tourists fly home and develop  eye and ear infections from swimming in sewerage and  chemical waste while in LOS?

I last swam off Pattaya around 1991 and almost swallowed a turd.

No doubt some fat old German had just taken a dump in his hotel room.

Never again.

The project this time is hundreds of times more substantial in sand volume and widening the beach.

They have embedded many layers of sandbags into the upper beach in very large excavations, then covered with more sand. So there is a massive amount of sand deposited onto the Northern end of beach. I dont know how far South down the beach this project is going to extend, but

Ill predict now that during the winter with the Northerly wind driven waves and currents the beaches just South  of the completed project are going to be totally washed out.

On 05/05/2018 at 9:06 AM, mok199 said:

and what about the rainy season floods??

There won't be a beach to renovate - Beach road becomes a reservoir as every soi drains into it.  Why don't they knock holes in the pavement/promenade every ten metres & sink some huge pipes to take the flood water nearer to the sea?