Arunothai neighbors fix flooding problem Pattaya City Hall didn’t

PATTAYA:--Central Pattaya residents again put their hands in their pockets to resolve flooding problems unresolved by the city’s spending of nearly 3 million baht on a sewer project.

 

Amnuay Muangthong, vice president of the Soi Arunothai Community, said Pattaya spent 1.9 million baht to rebuild sois Charoensuk and Udomsuk and lay new drainage pipes to resolve chronic flooding.

 

The construction finished in January but the flooding didn’t.

Drains installed at each end of Soi Arunothai are too small, sending water shooting down the small sidestreets, just as it did before.

 

In May, 10 furious families, who already put up with damaging floods and months of roadwork disruptions, banded together and bought four cubic meters of readymade concrete to create “water bumps” at the mouths of their streets to block most water from coming down their sois.
On July 16, 10 more families did the same on Soi Udomsuk.

 

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41 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

banded together and bought four cubic meters of readymade concrete to create “water bumps” at the mouths of their streets to block most water from coming down their sois.

What's the betting that  the council says these are illegal and removes them ????  ????

19 minutes ago, johng said:

What's the betting that  the council says these are illegal and removes them ????  ????

 

About the same as that for them causing more flood problems than they solve.

 

Perhaps for someone else (which will, of course, be of no concern whatsoever to the residents of Soi Arunothai).

 

 

1 hour ago, Rimmer said:

bought four cubic meters of readymade concrete to create “water bumps” at the mouths of their streets to block most water from coming down their sois

It may be pointing out the obvious, but isn't that just sending the water to another place to be 'somebody else's problem' ? 

And when the water gets high enough the water bumps will become water retention devices

Look like car prevention berms also... or launch ramps.

But this kind of action does not solve the problem, it only moves it onto someone or some place else

1 hour ago, johng said:

What's the betting that  the council says these are illegal and removes them ????  ????

If they attack that issue with the usual promptness I guess nobody needs worry.

I love when Thai people say they fix something..... 

Aronathai is also a nice Chinese village in North West Chiang Mai on the border to Burma. 

 

We solved our flood problem by purchasing our home on a tall soi, sorry for the folks below.