Pattaya Beach storm repairs continue

PATTAYA:--Repairs continued on flood-ravaged Pattaya Beach with city crews using heavy machinery to refill craters created by runoff from Monday’s big storm.

 

Mayor Sonthaya Kunplome and his top deputies toured the beach April 3 with Engineering Department executives.

 

Four front-loaders were deployed from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. to dredge sand offshore and return it to the tracts gouged out by rushing water racing downhill from the east and across Beach Road.

 

The damage to the beach made national news as Pattaya had spent about 600 million baht widening and building up the beach to 35 meters wide, drawing widespread praise for the restored beauty.

 

The damage inflicted on the beach – sure to be repeated during the coming rainy season – has been blamed on city hall’s failure to control Pattaya’s rampant flooding problems. (PCPR)

 

-- PATTAYA MAIL 2019-04-07--

Lol  - I wonder how that's working out for them now with the current monsoon raging on !

Just in time for low season's summer thunderstorms with afternoon flash floods, followed by the usual rain/wet season.   Similar thing happened last year.  Probably happen next year too.  A trend seems to be emerging. 

It was belting down an hour  ago with fast flowing currents down Kao Noi and around the bus station. God knows what will happen when it hits the already depleted beach,

as I said on an other post on this subject, this is all highly entertaining. 

Looks like 200m has been added to the cost of the original 400m at the ministry of creative accounting to cover repair costs ????

2 hours heavy rain today , so if this continues they need to refill the sand every night. Just keep the workers there on standby.  

 

 

1 hour ago, mikebell said:

It was belting down an hour  ago with fast flowing currents down Kao Noi and around the bus station. God knows what will happen when it hits the already depleted beach,

Tell me about it..........i got caught on Khao Noi returning from Big C.............was a struggle to get up the Soi in the pickup................

Pattaya beach repaired by back hoes...leaving huge ridges and tire tracks ...how the F will those tracks ever dissapear,high tide is 20 yards below that point....before this silly sand bag rejuvenation the tire tracks from back hoe flood repairs disappeared by morning naturally by the waves and tide....now they are screwed, as they raised this beach so high with these silly sand bags..absolutely retarded this....

If only they had of laid large diameter pipes from the end of the Soi's down the beach and out into the sea about 2klms out into the sea first then placed the sand down but NO not Pattaya council they put the sand down then let the water run off from the Soi's onto it what the hell did they expect was going to happen, the water was going to freeze sheesh!

It rained like hell both Saturday and Sunday so I wonder how this is doing?

I forgot to take pictures but still look like a s-hole. 

 

21 hours ago, balo said:

2 hours heavy rain today , so if this continues they need to refill the sand every night. Just keep the workers there on standby.  

 

 

will they get a premium for "working nights" ???

or just the national daily rates??