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Local residents angered over open sewer stench

By The Phuket News

 

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Local residents’ representative Vichat Trairat (white shirt) explains how the wastewater treatment is affecting local homes and businesses. Photo: PR Dept

 

PHUKET: Residents and business owners in Samkong, on the northwestern outskirts of Phuket Town, gathered yesterday (Jan 14) to jointly complain to officials about the overpowering stench and health risks of the canal that runs through their bustling community.

 

The canal, Klong Panieng, has long been a source of ire for the residents, with scores of homes and even factories in the area for years dumping untreated wastewater into the waterway.

 

Phuket City Municipality responded with a project to build three “wastewater treatment points”, literally nothing more than wastewater traps so waste can oxygenise and break down further before being emptied into the canal.


Read more at https://www.thephuketnews.com/local-residents-angered-over-open-sewer-stench-70026.php#vLaV4h33RJSkeruX.99 

 
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29 minutes ago, webfact said:

with scores of homes and even factories in the area for years dumping untreated wastewater into the waterway.

I think the officials need their noses rubbed in it.

Animals learn much quicker.

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