Pattaya’s failure to control garbage, floods, sewage imperil rebuilt beach

PATTAYA:--Pattaya Beach is growing in size by the day and so is the city’s challenge in keeping it clean.

 

About a half-billion baht has been spent to widen Pattaya Beach from four to 35 meters and the results have been spectacular. But almost as soon as the new sand went down, action and inaction by city hall have combined to begin eroding the rebuilt shoreline.

 

Street flooding continues to wreak havoc with the beach, with city hall worsening the erosion by demolishing parts of sidewalks to let water stream from Beach Road through the sand, pushing both water and sand back out into Pattaya Bay.

 

The city’s inability to control sewage spills also continues to cause problems, although, for now, the overflows mainly are affecting the unrestored southern end of the beach.

 

And then there’s the garbage. With the beach now seven times wider, there is exponentially more sand to keep clean. So far, city hall has failed miserably to consistently clean up its shiny new beach.

 

Beach vendors, residents and tourists all are calling on Pattaya administrators to do better in preserving the restored beach they’ve waited so long for.

 

 

-- © Copyright Pattaya Mail 2018-11-23

And the usual photo showing a tourist looking around in disbelief of what he sees. I wouldn't take off my shoes if I was him.

51 minutes ago, kotsak said:

And the usual photo showing a tourist looking around in disbelief of what he sees. I wouldn't take off my shoes if I was him.

Maybe he is looking to see what he can find. Dreaming some thing of value is among all the garbage

I watched last night from my beachfront hotel as the rain attempted to put a dampener on the Loy Kratong celebrations.  Beach road was awash.

3 hours ago, Rimmer said:

The city’s inability to control sewage spills also continues to cause problems

Be realistic. Need to replace the phrase 'inability to control sewage spills' with 'inability for decades to run a local administration effectively.'

Joking aside was this not predictable ? The underlying cause of beach road flooding out everytime with heavy rains still hasn't been addressed so all the beautification of the beach was always going to be at risk .. Patt' authorities need to find a solution to this as damage to its reputation might become beyond redemption .. 

 

4 hours ago, Rimmer said:

The city’s inability to control sewage spills

Is that what they call it now ?  Thought there was no control or treatment of sewage in Pattaya.   

So.... even in 2018, painting over cracks still doesn’t work... who’d have thunk it?

1 hour ago, bluesofa said:

Be realistic. Need to replace the phrase 'inability to control sewage spills' with 'inability for decades to run a local administration effectively.'

Pattaya is not the only Town that is buit right next to the Ocean.

Not so many others all around the Globe seem to suffer from the issues that Pattaya has.

The Local Admin Authority has been run extremelt efficiently for many years.   Just not for the good of residents or Tourists alike.

 

Why don't they break out the mechanical beach cleaning machines which were never used because 'No one knew how to operate them?' They were a nice little earner for someone.????

There's no way to control garbage because Pattaya is a dump. 

Oh yes the sparkling sands at the family resort

1 hour ago, Gandtee said:

Why don't they break out the mechanical beach cleaning machines which were never used because 'No one knew how to operate them?' They were a nice little earner for someone.????

Turn a few bar girls upside down and vacum it up

So nothing new 

And so long they blame the tourism Thai people don't care 

Wake up Thailand fix your problems you have meny of them 

My list.. 

Dog's 

Noise 

Traffic accident and death 

Garbish 

Illegal workers (russky, farangs, Asian)  

Corruption 

I stop now list get to long 

 

Close off beach road  completly - dig up the entire road section, put in a proper sewerage/storm water system and make it a pedestrian walk way and a public green space with no traffic access.. Thats the only way Pattaya beach will become semi swimable.

 

Pattaya needs some of those ''foreign skilled professionals''

A simple fix would be to have as a condition for renting beach space the umbrella and chair concession holders are required to clean the beach in front of their rental area.

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Living up to its reputation of being a DUMP of a place!

1 hour ago, birddogger said:

A simple fix would be to have as a condition for renting beach space the umbrella and chair concession holders are required to clean the beach in front of their rental area.

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They do, and fling it in the sea!

On 11/23/2018 at 11:53 AM, kotsak said:

And the usual photo showing a tourist looking around in disbelief of what he sees. I wouldn't take off my shoes if I was him.

How do you know he's a tourist and not a local?

20 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Patt' authorities need to find a solution

The solution is to exchange the people in charge, as they're obviously only interested in lining their pockets. Incompetent guys out, wannabe competent guys in.

6 minutes ago, bbi1 said:

How do you know he's a tourist and not a local?

He's a whitey.

On 11/23/2018 at 2:08 AM, Cake Monster said:

Pattaya is not the only Town that is buit right next to the Ocean.

Not so many others all around the Globe seem to suffer from the issues that Pattaya has.

The Local Admin Authority has been run extremelt efficiently for many years.   Just not for the good of residents or Tourists alike.

 

I get your meaning  of the last two sentences. Well put. Efficiency from one pocket into another.