Nong Plalai drainage repairs make floods worse

PATTAYA:--Residents in Nong Plalai’s Moo 3 village said drains clogged with sand are causing their neighborhood to flood.

 

Sub-district Councilman Chaloem Khetjae led the media on an inspection following complaints about a recent construction project from Moo 3 to the Mapbon Community that generated an excess of sand.

 

Even though the contractors were hired for 4.8 million baht to replace drain covers and resurface the road to improve flooding, the workers carelessly flushed sand into the very same sewers, making matters worse.

 

Resident Somdej Boon­tuam said the work may look better, but making the road five centimeters higher created more problems because the sewer grates weren’t raised and now sand, garbage and other debris funnels into them.

 

Nong Plalai engineers promised to use high-pressure hoses to clear the drains, but never showed up. So residents rallied and summoned local administrators to see the problems for themselves.

 

 

-- © Copyright Pattaya Mail 2018-06-01

Drove past the other day as they were washing the sand into the drains.wonderful Thailand

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its a shame that i find myself  doing what as known as thai bashing  i have resisted up until now to openly do so    conclution   the standard of most workers  on this type of project   is absolutly

 

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5 hours ago, Rimmer said:

resurface the road to improve flooding

I thought the idea was to improve drainage!

They've just finished the road outside my moo-baan after six months of disruption & lengthy detours.  All the sandy verges at the side of the road are higher than the road and the rain washes the sand straight into the mosquito breeding grounds AKA drainage pits.  I expect floods imminently.

Civil engineers Thai style, no wonder they do not want foreign workers doing it . 

Drains should be laid at such slope as to provide a minimum velocity of 3 fps, the self cleansing velocity, but I have never in almost 40 years seen a level used in the laying of any drains here. Rocket science it ain,t !

27 minutes ago, Khun Paul said:

Civil engineers Thai style, no wonder they do not want foreign workers doing it . 

After the Mother Theresa of civil engineers gave them a fluff...

No matter what job work  here  is getting done ,,, There's two ways they can do that    1,  That's the Thai way 

 2,  that's the right way ,,,,   I haven't seen a number 2 Yet     ?

2 hours ago, Khun Paul said:

Civil engineers Thai style, no wonder they do not want foreign workers doing it . 

I wish the use of the word "Engineer" would stop being banded around. Thailand has very few real engineers and those that are do not work in Thailand.

5 hours ago, phantomfiddler said:

Drains should be laid at such slope as to provide a minimum velocity of 3 fps, the self cleansing velocity, but I have never in almost 40 years seen a level used in the laying of any drains here. Rocket science it ain,t !

No ! its certainly not Rocket Science.

Some Thais actually believe that water can flow up hill.

With a mentality like that there is no hope.