Pattaya cleans, repairs Sukhumvit Road sewers

[Rimmer]

Pattaya cleans, repairs Sukhumvit Road sewers

PATTAYA:-- Pattaya scraped out drains under Sukhumvit Road to better handle endemic flooding.

 

A work crew on Aug. 1 scooped out garbage blocking sewers, sucked out pipes and repaired broken grates in the Sukhumvit median near North Road. They also cut back grass blocking water flow.

 

They later moved down the road to do similar work between Soi Chaiyapruek and Soi Wat Boonkanjanaram.

 

It’s hoped all the maintenance will lesson flooding during the balance of rainy season.

 

-- © Copyright Pattaya Mail 2018-08-10

[sammieuk1]

The new beach looks weedy already?

[fakename]

So, the drainage system is full of sand and garbage, and they just cut the grass? Why wait till they are all full, before doing anything?

[tolsti]

They did all the drains in Soi AR recently using prisoners from the local jail. The amount of thick black sand and waste they pulled out (by hand) was astounding. 

 

[essox essox]

these over flow drains/gulleys do NOT look to be UNDER Sukhumvit at all !!!

[johng]

1 hour ago, Rimmer said:

A work crew on Aug. 1 scooped out garbage blocking sewers, sucked out pipes and repaired broken grates in the Sukhumvit median near North Road. They also cut back grass blocking water flow.

What a job !!!!  those gulleys go on for kilometre after kilometre  along Sukhumvit   it will take those 5 workers forever  of backbreaking hard labour...surely there is a machine to help them out a bit ?

Edited August 10, 2018 by johng

[AsiaHand]

5 hours ago, tolsti said:

They did all the drains in Soi AR recently using prisoners from the local jail. The amount of thick black sand and waste they pulled out (by hand) was astounding. 

 

Should not they have done this "before" the rainy season ?

[Ulic]

4 hours ago, johng said:

What a job !!!!  those gulleys go on for kilometre after kilometre  along Sukhumvit   it will take those 5 workers forever  of backbreaking hard labour...surely there is a machine to help them out a bit ?

Plenty of prisoners in jail to do the job. A little exercise and pay them 100 baht a day.

[stud858]

6 hours ago, tolsti said:

They did all the drains in Soi AR recently using prisoners from the local jail. The amount of thick black sand and waste they pulled out (by hand) was astounding. 

 

Where they paid? 

If not and forced to do it, Is that against any convention? 

 

[stud858]

6 hours ago, tolsti said:

They did all the drains in Soi AR recently using prisoners from the local jail. The amount of thick black sand and waste they pulled out (by hand) was astounding. 

 

Where they paid? 

If not and forced to do it, Is that against any convention? 

 

[300sd]

How interesting!

[tryasimight]

9 hours ago, Rimmer said:

sucked out pipes

Our thanks go to the dedicated girls from soi 6 for beautification effort for this fine city. 

Hope they brushed their teeth before clocking in to work. 

[mikebell]

Next can we have some street lights that work.  There are long dark stretches  populated by invisible motor cyclists with no lights.

[grollies]

On 8/10/2018 at 1:51 PM, johng said:

What a job !!!!  those gulleys go on for kilometre after kilometre  along Sukhumvit   it will take those 5 workers forever  of backbreaking hard labour...surely there is a machine to help them out a bit ?

Yep, there is. I tried to get the Thais interested two years ago via a Thai friend. He owns a business building water pumping stations.

 

He couldn't even get an initial meeting going.

 

Says it all really, they are simply not interested and problems like this don't really exist. That and there was no envelope.