Pattaya again patches up flood-battered beach

PATTAYA:--Pattaya again has been patching huge holes in its rebuilt beachfront caused by poor storm-drainage management.

 

Deputy Mayor Pattana Boonsawad oversaw the May 23 patch job, saying the work will need to be repeated after every major storm until the city installs new drainage pipes running the entire stretch of beachfront.

 

He said it’s hoped construction will start in June and last nine months.

 

Meanwhile, four backhoes were back on the beach, recovering sand washed away by torrents of water running down sois and across Beach Road, carving huge troughs in the sand that Pattaya spent 600 million baht laying.

 

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New drainage pipes running the entire length of the beach to be installed starting in June and construction lasting 9 months. 

5 minutes ago, morrobay said:

New drainage pipes running the entire length of the beach to be installed starting in June and construction lasting 9 months. 

And then?

New extra sand on that beach again? and remodeling beach road?

 

It'll never work, just cement the whole damn beach, it's all to dirty anyway.

43 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

He said it’s hoped construction will start in June and last nine months.

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44 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

until the city installs new drainage pipes running the entire stretch of beachfront.

Perfect timing, it's always better to fix storm drains in the wet season!

Patching that's all they how to do ????

They keep forgetting to add the cement !

regards worgeordie

2 hours ago, PatOngo said:

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Perfect timing, it's always better to fix storm drains in the wet season!

And 9 months + construction on the beach from June takes it through high season in order to finish off what's ever left of the Western visitors.

I have a feeling someone is making a crapload of money out of this..

 

High Season is down the Drain !!!!  80% of Thais will loose their Jobs Leave Pattaya or Starve....Beach & Walking Street,,,BARS Closed..........

High Season is down the Drain !!!!  

And it was only back in April that one of our esteemed members assured us that the beach was the best it had ever been and had not been washed away !!

 

It would appear that Deputy Mayor Pattana Boonsawad has other ideas. I wonder how much this is gonna cost to fix ?

band aid on a leper

9 months of work on Beach Road!  Where will all the coaches park?  Throw in the Bandits-in-Brown stick-ups on 2nd Road like there was last night and Pattaya will grind to a total halt.

12 hours ago, mok199 said:

Living around this shameless ,thai stupidity has become unbearable...''beam me UP scotty.''

Gets to me more than ever nowadays....they get more stupid by the day!

14 hours ago, Fred white said:

Patching that's all they how to do ????

and they cant do it right !!

What an outstanding success! It takes coordination, ingenuity and vision to milk the coffers after every rain storm. After years of trial and error with substandard roads, which take up to two years to disintegrate, the city council has excelled itself. Finally, a project that is guaranteed to spread the wealth to in-laws and mates after every single downpour for years to come

15 hours ago, morrobay said:

New drainage pipes running the entire length of the beach to be installed starting in June and construction lasting 9 months. 

Start of the rainy season!

 

Good plan!

11 hours ago, UASCB500BIKER said:

High Season is down the Drain !!!!  80% of Thais will loose their Jobs Leave Pattaya or Starve....Beach & Walking Street,,,BARS Closed..........

We do live in hope...

Since they started cementing things over, the natural 'soak' that existed half-way up Soi 12 between Beach and Second in 1977 was slowly back forced between Buakhao and Third around 1985. Subsequently migrating SE until it was backed up against Sukhumvit north of Soi Batman. In the last two years, that has been finally filled in.

 

Digging up Beach to put drainage that presumably will run north to south isn't going to help anything. Everything flows towards the sea, even from the dizzy heights of upper Khaonoi. New, man-made 'drainage' will be just another barrier.

16 hours ago, Fred white said:

Patching that's all they how to do ????

There are a number of quotes posted on the fence near the local elementary school; a couple of which are applicable.

 

Remember a few years ago when the city revamped the Beach Road promenade and added an extra lane to the street, including the insufficient curb drains? We “side walk” supervisors knew these drains were not big enough.

The city would save money in the long run to hire this project to a foreign company than having locals involved with it. Sad.

17 hours ago, Rimmer said:

Pattaya again patches up flood-battered beach

Pathetic... yet the officials remain in charge?

First they ripped up the pavement to make a promenade, then ripped up some of the promenade to make the road wider, then reclaimed the beach (and to be fair it looks pretty good when there is no rain) and now have to start ripping it up again for drains. I cant remember in recent times when there has not been something going down ( no pun intended but open to comments) on beach road.

12 hours ago, UASCB500BIKER said:

High Season is down the Drain !!!!  

Yeah you said

Must be some very happy Thais who are in the earth (sand) moving business... Rolex watches all round I think...

10 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

And it was only back in April that one of our esteemed members assured us that the beach was the best it had ever been and had not been washed away !!

 

It would appear that Deputy Mayor Pattana Boonsawad has other ideas. I wonder how much this is gonna cost to fix ?

  The beach has not been 'washed away'.  They've constructed troughs to allow the flood water to wash down and drain in certain parts of the beach. That way just the sand in these drain areas washes away and it is easily replaced.  

    I remember the stories after the last big rain--I was in Bangkok at the time.  THE WHOLE BEACH HAS WASHED AWAY!!! IT'S ALL GONE!!!  I thought, good grief, the whole beach gone and after they had spent all that money.  Well, get back to Pattaya and, guess what?  The new beach is still there.  Typical TV exaggeration.  I guess we'll have to put up with these posts every time it rains.  

It might be helpful if all the new pipes, drains, etc., actually  went somewhere. Water flows downhill, the sea is as low as it gets. What is a pipe along the beach going to achieve? No affordable number of pumps will shift the produce of even a minor cloudburst, it's still going to find it's way to, you guessed it, The Beach.

Not to worry.......... unless you are the tax payer that is footing the bill..........you can be sure that MANY Thai officials, pocket a good chunk of graft money in to his off-shore bank account...... Their family will drive Benz's all their life thank you to continueing erosion of the beaches......... Have you thought about that??????? Maybe we would all like to be 'THAT' official..... LOL .....

14 hours ago, UASCB500BIKER said:

High Season is down the Drain !!!!  80% of Thais will loose their Jobs Leave Pattaya or Starve....Beach & Walking Street,,,BARS Closed..........

so not true WS is really busy as is most of pattaya.