Raw sewage dumped in Pong tapioca field

PATTAYA:--Pong authorities are hunting for the driver of a sewer-cleaning truck that dumped its load of raw sewage in a tapioca field.

 

Mayor Suntorn Ketthong and his deputies went to the field off Soi Ponglang 4 Dec. 21 to inspect the damage. The sewage was dumped on a sloping tapioca field and ran downhill, spreading the stinking offal over a 500-meter area.

 

Pong water trucks washed down the area, but the damage to crops and noses lingered.

 

Suntorn issued a warning to all area pump trucks against illegal dumping.

 

Sub-district Clerk Kittisak Monkaew vowed to track down and prosecute the polluter.

 

 

-- © Copyright Pattaya Mail 2019-01-04

So they went to Pong for the 'pong' 

53 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

 dumped its load of raw sewage in a tapioca field.

Its maybe slightly better than  dumping it straight into the sea...where most of it goes now anyway !!!

4 hours ago, Rimmer said:

Pong water trucks washed down the area, but the damage to crops and noses lingered.

Damage to the crops? Surely it's just fertiliser.

Kiitisak vowed to track down the polluter, poor bugger will be in deep s++t then.

Unusual, it usually gets pumped into rice paddies at night up here in Isaan, no evidence, so no one cares. Something to think about as you tuck into your Hom mali....

It all gets sold and dumped on sugar cane land up here in Isaan where I live.

4 hours ago, johng said:

Its maybe slightly better than  dumping it straight into the sea...where most of it goes now anyway !!!

I had my tanks emptied a few months back and wondered where it would get dumped. Same as the piles of rubbish in nearby casava fields.

Note to self: "Tapioca is now off the dessert list."

 

 

 

14 minutes ago, connda said:

Note to self: "Tapioca is now off the dessert list."

Being overcautious now, but perhaps the Brown Windsor soup too?

5 hours ago, ThaiFelix said:

It all gets sold and dumped on sugar cane land up here in Isaan where I live.

I live in Isaan too - so that's where my local "Lavender Wagon" empties its load. I am diabetic and must not eat sugar - thank God!!

All those "puns" about pong & dumping.... just waiting for the best ones !

A few years ago the tanker was emptying my septic tanks,

out of curiosity i asked the the driver,what are you going to

do with this load,he said have another septic tank to empty

then I take it up to the strawberry fields up in the hills !

regards worgeordie

14 hours ago, connda said:

Note to self: "Tapioca is now off the dessert list."

 

 

 

And Isaan is not a nice place to live...

2 minutes ago, Youlike said:

And Isaan is not a nice place to live...

It's a rice place to live.

15 hours ago, connda said:

Note to self: "Tapioca is now off the dessert list."

 

 

 

You can now add:

strawberries

sugar

rice

Suppose you could add anything grown in Thailand

4 minutes ago, Basil B said:

You can now add:

strawberries

sugar

rice

Suppose you could add anything grown in Thailand

grown ups?

 

20 hours ago, zyphodb said:

Unusual, it usually gets pumped into rice paddies at night up here in Isaan, no evidence, so no one cares. Something to think about as you tuck into your Hom mali....

Yeah,You need to " Smell " the stink around Amphur Phen Sometimes......Gut Wrenching....

20 hours ago, ThaiFelix said:

It all gets sold and dumped on sugar cane land up here in Isaan where I live.

So that's why they call it " The SWEET Smell of Success "

1 hour ago, Youlike said:

And Isaan is not a nice place to live...

How Bloody Dare You Say That !!

Heard Italian farmers pay a lot for effluent collected from the Vatican.

 

One might say "Holly Sh..."

It should be put on fields. It is what the world did for thousands of years. IF it was treated properly, very little risk and better for the environment than dumping it into water courses, treated or not.

 

We grow all our veggies organically (i.e. with shit).