Storm dumps 20 tons of garbage on Pattaya Beach

[Rimmer]

Storm dumps 20 tons of garbage on Pattaya Beach

PATTAYA:--About 100 Pattaya workers collected more than 20 tons of garbage and natural debris after a Sept. 14 storm.

 

Environment Department staffers spread out along the entirety of Pattaya Beach Sept. 15, using machinery and hand tools to collect the rubbish that both washed ashore and down from higher elevations, along with weeds, wood and hyacinth flushed to the sea from drainage canals.

 

Head cleaner Sanya Tubtimsir said the crews worked as quickly as possible to preserve the image of the beach for tourists.

 

With Typhoon Mungkhut expected to move inland from China and Vietnam by Thursday, more rain was expected in Pattaya.

 

 

-- © Copyright Pattaya Mail 2018-09-21

[worgeordie]

Looks like the garbage is coming in,while the sand is been

washed away.

regards worgeordie

[PatOngo]

God I love Pattaya!

[mommysboy]

Fine a smoker!

[AlexCanada]

1 hour ago, PatOngo said:

God I love Pattaya!

It's better than TV.  You can't make this stuff up.

[lopburi3]

Week old news copyright today.  ?

[HLover]

The good news is Ko Larn is now 20 tonnes cleaner.

[Thian]

30 minutes ago, HLover said:

The good news is Ko Larn is now 20 tonnes cleaner.

I was impressed by the clean water on koh larn, it's a beautifull island with many very nice beaches.

[Saraphee]

Storms don't dump garbage - people do!

[DoctorG]

So what do they do with it all? Take it 20 klm down the road and dump it in the sea?

[lanista]

According to the pic ,  there is no beach in Pattaya anymore.

 

[Borzandy]

16 hours ago, Rimmer said:

Storm dumps 20 tons of garbage on Pattaya Beach

These damn storms again....

[lopburi3]

9 minutes ago, Borzandy said:

These damn storms again....

Especially storms more than 1,500km away - they are surly the culpirt.  

[RichardColeman]

17 hours ago, Rimmer said:

Storm dumps 20 tons of garbage on Pattaya Beach

It's the every day tide, not a storm

[hotchilli]

Some beach.. I wonder how the tourists manage to find a spot to lay down?

[tropo]

21 hours ago, Rimmer said:

With Typhoon Mungkhut expected to move inland from China and Vietnam by Thursday, more rain was expected in Pattaya.

 September is the wettest month of the year in Pattaya and it always rains. The typhoon was 2500 km northeast when this storm struck Pattaya beach, and it was always going to be about 2000 km to the north, even after hitting HK. It had no effect at all on Pattaya's weather.

[oldrunner]

Lay down on the beach? What, where, certainly not Pattaya. When you think of all the good reasons to stay away from sea water, why would you want to expose yourself to it.

 

[oldrunner]

Just leave it there and wait for the next 'storm'.

[Cake Monster]

Shouldn,t the headline read " 20 Tons More Garbage dumped on Pattaya beach 

[chama]

9 hours ago, DoctorG said:

So what do they do with it all? Take it 20 klm down the road and dump it in the sea?

You got it, endless cycle. While the trash takes the time to wash back up on shore officials take the time to stand around scratching their heads trying to figure out why. 

[lamyai3]

15 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

Shouldn,t the headline read " 20 Tons More Garbage dumped on Pattaya beach 

The next 20 tons is just offshore, forming an orderly queue 

[The manic]

18 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Some beach.. I wonder how the tourists manage to find a spot to lay down?

Replace the word storm with Qantas flight.

[Esso49]

18 hours ago, tropo said:

 September is the wettest month of the year in Pattaya and it always rains. The typhoon was 2500 km northeast when this storm struck Pattaya beach, and it was always going to be about 2000 km to the north, even after hitting HK. It had no effect at all on Pattaya's weather.

Stop quoting facts as the  Pattaya adminsitration simply can not understand them.

[overherebc]

1 hour ago, lamyai3 said:

The next 20 tons is just offshore, forming an orderly queue 

An 'orderly queue.'

Please re-phrase.

?

[fakename]

Why do these storms always try to destroy the image of Pattaya?  I seen a guy drowning in the surf and as he took his last breath, he said, Sorry for destroying the image of Pattaya. I just love how everyone is concerned with the image of Pattaya. Even when someone robs a shop and gets caught, that is the first thing he says!

[kwan]

....

[lopburi3]

It's all those nasty tourist butts.

[The manic]

On 9/22/2018 at 7:29 AM, Kim J said:

Anyone with any sense at all wouldn't go near Pattaya Beach. I can not see one attribute that would even get me to consider going to sit there.

One reason to go there then!

[Basil B]

20 tons = one lorry load.

 

If they cleaned the beach every day I would expect a few tons, much of what was in the picture was not even man made, mainly bits if wood, the larger bits of wood may be from man made structures, but most seems to be natural occurring detritus washed into the see and deposited by a naturally occurring on-shore wind.

 

If you want to see tons and tons of man made trash go to the beach a few days after Loi Krathong...