South Pattaya canal problems continue

 

Work to widen the canal is making matters worse

 

PATTAYA:--Residents in South Pattaya are complaining construction work along the canal meant to ease local flooding has had the opposite effect.

 

Metakrit Sunthornrot, chairman of Walking Street Community on June 1 led the Pattaya media to the site of the South Pattaya canal rejuvenation project to give them a firsthand look at the progress and inconveniences caused by the contractors hired to widen the canal and improve the landscape.

 

Instead of seeing improvements to the canal, reporters saw that both sides of the canal were lined with concrete pilings, which according to plan is going to be a walkway. The canal was full of sand and mud which was filled in by the contractors so they could drive their heavy machinery of large cranes and backhoes through it during the construction process.

 

Metakrit said that they had campaigned vigorously for the city to demolish the buildings that encroached on the canal, but now what they see is that the contractors have narrowed the width of the canal even more by their pilings. Furthermore, the sand and mud in the canal has caused flooding in the homes of nearby residents since last March.

 

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MORONS!

19 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

MORONS!

Exactly,  there really isn't anything more to add   except maybe  "complete and utter"

15 hours ago, Rimmer said:

meant to ease local flooding has had the opposite effect.

They've just finished 'draining' the road adjacent to my moobaan in Bang Saray (after 7 months!)  Now whenever it rains, the exit on to Sukhumvit becomes a river.  Lots of sand on the new surface means a deathtrap for motor cyclists.

The engineering genius of the Thais..Is this a occupation reserved for Thais only