Black water flows across Kamala Beach

[webfact]

Black water flows across Kamala Beach

By The Phuket News

 

The black water flowed across Kamala Beach and darkened the water and the sand at the beach. Photo: Icecy Aticha

 

PHUKET: The Kamala Tambon Administrative Organisation (OrBorTor) has vowed to raise the issue of the black water running across the sand and into the sea southern end Kamala Beach with the Phuket Governor while the local authority works to clear the water and find the source of the pollution.

 

Kamala OrBorTor Deputy Chief Nopporn Karuna told The Phuket News today (Feb 25) that effective micro-organism (EM) balls were being prepared so they can be deployed throughout the Pak Bang Canal to mitigate the concentration of of contaminants in the water.

 

“Now we are preparing to add EM balls to the canal as quickly as possible. Also, we will remove the black sand and soil from the canal,” he said.

Read more at https://www.thephuketnews.com/black-water-flows-across-kamala-beach-70509.php#qeAH43C0TwcAIR1P.99

 

 -- © Copyright Phuket News 2019-02-26

[Briggsy]

8 minutes ago, webfact said:

black water

= raw sewage.

[Snow Leopard]

So just treat it and not locate the source?

[kannot]

5 minutes ago, Snow Leopard said:

So just treat it and not locate the source?

Depends who owns the source, cant go upsetting higher up sources

[wendyfromoz]

The beaches in Thailand are really quite disgusting.

[Snow Leopard]

1 minute ago, kannot said:

Depends who owns the source, cant go upsetting higher up sources

Correct. 

[Valentine]

14 minutes ago, Snow Leopard said:

So just treat it and not locate the source?

From the article " while the local authority works to clear the water and find the source of the pollution. "

[Oziex1]

This story is a cut and paste job,  just change the name of the beach to suite. No action is taken and it repeats over and over. 

[ChipButty]

Try putting your own balls in there

[AhFarangJa]

Mr Nopporn explained that his office was first informed of the black at the popular tourist beach on Friday (Feb 22).
So why has it taken nearly 4 days to move into action..............

 

“The EM balls will be deployed tomorrow (Feb 16),” he added
Then, miraculously, they are taking preventative action one week before it is reported..........

EM Balls..........Environment Minister's by any chance......

[HAKAPALITA]

Nearly all the Jets are from China lately, so noo prob.Must be hurting the majority of Thais, this overvalued currency. Never seen it so quiet.

[Tropposurfer]

Yuck!

Hope they test that stuff asap and find the source and stop it !!!!

Don't look like raw sewage to me. I grew around Manly beach, NSW Australia as a kid and like all crazy bulletproof kids surfed in stinky foam and brown greasy water almost every day cause the waves were more important than THE STINK AND POO lol lol. 

Sewage in any outfall/outlet pipes as it runs into or is in the sea is usually brownish in colour and solids that are easily recognisable as real brown poo, and always has a brownish creamy foam along with it and it stinks like poo.

[sammieuk1]

Sure BJ will stroll into town and arrest it any time now????

[zaZa9]

While there are a  large number of small time polluters , everyone knows the major source , and that is the largest beach front hotel . ( Its name starts with the name of that  hot ball in the sky ...)

Quite ironic really , and a classic case of 'Sh*tting in ones own nest '...

 

Its anyones guess as to why they are never brought to task.

 

But having said that , Kamala has NO sewerage system . So we shouldnt expect any improvement soon.

In fact , we should expect it to get worse , as many hundreds of new rooms come on line , and not one of the developers has bragged about making  a small footprint , or installing any sort of water treatment plant .

Kamala is degrading VERY rapidly ...

 

[Psimbo]

Nope- still haven't noticed any posts by people directly afffected by this - only supposition.

 

The three klongs in Kamala are all polluted. there is NOT water treatment facility in the town. The biggest contributor is the massive site that will remain unnamed at the north end of town but blind eyes are turned due to bulging pockets. When the ground breaking ceremonies were conducted last year one couldn't move for cops, army officers and local officials in line with their hands out. Kamala is a dust blown building site at present and dos not need the 4,500 projected units being constructed. There is no real infrastructure to support a project this size and the authorities simply don't care.

 

Edit: pipped at the post by zaZa9!

Edited February 26, 2019 by Psimbo

[Redline]

Obviously the penalties are not significant, since this is an eternal issue in many locations 

[seahorse]

The solution proposed sounds like a lot of balls. 

[Pinot]

The source? The <deleted> source? The source is all of Kamala! There is NO sewer treatment in Kamala. 

[Mysterion]

Hopefully this problem will find a fix soon, as the big 5 star waterfront hotels(Novotel, Sunwing, Mont Azure, Cape Sienna and Andara) will lose fortunes in lost room occupancy if the problem persists for any significant period of time.

 

tripadvisor and the other hotel review sites will be overloaded with “stinky blackwater” reviews, and that should drive these big hotels to either find a long term remedy or go bankrupt.

Edited February 26, 2019 by Mysterion