Pattaya Beach Being Washed Away Again

[Banana7]

Heavy rain is washing away Pattaya beach. Seems like the new sewer and drainage system isn't operational or is ineffective.

[Pilotman]

Well that was predictable.  As we have said many times, without substantial breakwaters and  groynes protecting the bay, there is nothing that can be done to stop this erosion of the beach.   Any half decent hydrographer will tell them that. 

[Ron jeremy]

Washed away?, just another sewage canal floating into the bay.

paradise!

[champers]

JCBs will backfill in due course. I am guessing the new and improved drainage is not yet functional.

[Banana7]

15 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

Well that was predictable.  As we have said many times, without substantial breakwaters and  groynes protecting the bay, there is nothing that can be done to stop this erosion of the beach.   Any half decent hydrographer will tell them that. 

The erosion shown in the photos has nothing to do with breakwaters and groynes. The erosion is caused by rainwater overflow from Beach Road.

[elliss]

22 minutes ago, Ron jeremy said:

Washed away?, just another sewage canal floating into the bay.

paradise!

 

    Used condoms floating away .

      What a waste of a life , paradise lost ...

 

Edited April 25, 2020 by elliss

[Pilotman]

15 minutes ago, Banana7 said:

The erosion shown in the photos has nothing to do with breakwaters and groynes. The erosion is caused by rainwater overflow from Beach Road.

true, but that is not the sole nor the main reason why the beach will not last.  

[chickenslegs]

28 minutes ago, Banana7 said:

The erosion shown in the photos has nothing to do with breakwaters and groynes. The erosion is caused by rainwater overflow from Beach Road.

Agreed.

I'm no expert, but it seems obvious that the rain falling on the hills to the east of Pattaya used to be soaked up by the trees and other vegitation. With 50% or more of that land now being covered in concrete, far more water is now filling the drains and natural riverlets that lead to the beach.

It's a shame that the flood waters can't be collected and used to alleviate the annual Pattaya drought.

[Puchaiyank]

An inglorious end to a once proud and favorite holiday destination of some outstanding R & R...

 

For those who do not know the meaning of R&R...it means rear and rump...

[Pattaya46]

3 hours ago, Banana7 said:

Heavy rain is washing away Pattaya beach. Seems like the new sewer and drainage system isn't operational or is ineffective.

It's not finished yet!

Just have a look at the north extremity or in the center: the big black pipes are not yet all connected.

BTW it's only rain water drainage. No sewer connected to this pipe.

[scubascuba3]

4 hours ago, Pattaya46 said:

It's not finished yet!

Just have a look at the north extremity or in the center: the big black pipes are not yet all connected.

BTW it's only rain water drainage. No sewer connected to this pipe.

Yep not finished yet, so they have an excuse for a few more months but their record isn't good, Buakhao flooded and 3rd road flooded

[thaibeachlovers]

47 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Yep not finished yet, so they have an excuse for a few more months but their record isn't good, Buakhao flooded and 3rd road flooded

Buakhao flooded if a teaspoon full of rain fell when I was living on it. Not surprising when the drains are probably blocked with debris of decades.

[JensenZ]

8 hours ago, Pilotman said:

Well that was predictable.  As we have said many times, without substantial breakwaters and  groynes protecting the bay, there is nothing that can be done to stop this erosion of the beach.   Any half decent hydrographer will tell them that. 

Where do you find a decent hydrographer or even a half decent one? Do you think one of them has ever visited Pattaya?

 

Surely even without one it's not hard to determine that water washes away sand.

[Pilotman]

2 hours ago, JensenZ said:

Where do you find a decent hydrographer or even a half decent one? Do you think one of them has ever visited Pattaya?

 

Surely even without one it's not hard to determine that water washes away sand.

There are plenty around if they wanted to find one.  Cardiff University has a whole Department. As I understood it, Bangkok University Department of Oceanography advised Pattaya on the solution.  It was their idea to add beach but not breakwaters or groynes. 

[petermik]

18 hours ago, champers said:

JCBs will backfill in due course. I am guessing the new and improved drainage is not yet functional.

Nor never will be....I saw the damage a couple of days ago and in those areas the new drainage system was finished............back to the drawing board again.....

[sungod]

10 hours ago, Puchaiyank said:

An inglorious end to a once proud and favorite holiday destination of some outstanding R & R...

 

For those who do not know the meaning of R&R...it means rear and rump...

Or if you were a sailor, rump the rear! ????

[PatOngo]

2 hours ago, JensenZ said:

Where do you find a decent hydrographer or even a half decent one? Do you think one of them has ever visited Pattaya?

 

Surely even without one it's not hard to determine that water washes away sand.

Give them a break, they've been trying to work it out for the past 45 years!

[soalbundy]

The sea is a guardian of good taste

[Pilotman]

15 hours ago, Banana7 said:

The erosion shown in the photos has nothing to do with breakwaters and groynes. The erosion is caused by rainwater overflow from Beach Road.

The beach sand that is washed into the sea by the outflows of storm water  can be made to settle in the bay, and then redirected  back to the beach if strategic breakwaters and groynes direct the currents.  Many beaches worldwide are treated in this way, if they don't have naturally returning currents, due to natural rock features close by,  as are a good number of beaches in the UK. The interesting thing here is that Rayong beach has breakwaters  that work very well.  Why didn't they just look up the road? 

 

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/518125132100214460/

 

https://www.travel-in-portugal.com/photos/beach-groynes-air.htm

[worgeordie]

Is the expensive floating pier still there,or has it floated

away to Hua Hin.

regards worgeordie

[jacko45k]

28 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

The beach sand that is washed into the sea by the outflows of storm water  can be made to settle in the bay, and then redirected  back to the beach if strategic breakwaters and groynes direct the currents.

The speedboats  would be smashing into them, and the jetskis.... rather than cutting up swimmers.

[Pilotman]

1 minute ago, jacko45k said:

The speedboats  would be smashing into them, and the jetskis.... rather than cutting up swimmers.

ha,ha true enough.  Maybe it would get rid of the damn things for good, or at least make them use the pier, which I understand that they should be doing anyway. 

[Venom]

Really? ????

[sead]

Simple logic. It will never work until you do it right. Start kicking those experts that spent almost 2 x 400m thb.

[thpitsch]

Thank God no tourists were washed away!

[PETERTHEEATER]

17 hours ago, elliss said:

 

    Used condoms floating away .

      What a waste of a life , paradise lost ...

 

Look at it as 'repurposed', semen becomes seamen.....????

[Bangkok Barry]

18 hours ago, Pilotman said:

Well that was predictable.  As we have said many times, without substantial breakwaters and  groynes protecting the bay, there is nothing that can be done to stop this erosion of the beach.   Any half decent hydrographer will tell them that. 

They probably don't want to stop the erosion. Someone no doubt makes a great deal of money replacing the sand every year. And they will always claim it's not their fault the sand washes away. It's nature.

[johng]

2 hours ago, worgeordie said:

Is the expensive floating pier still there,or has it floated

away to Hua Hin.

regards worgeordie

Expensive floating pier is still at Bahn Amphur beach.

[Almer]

10 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Buakhao flooded if a teaspoon full of rain fell when I was living on it. Not surprising when the drains are probably blocked with debris of decades.

All the fat tipped directly down them at night doesn't help, nor does the waste engine oil, the ones who tip are the first ones to complain

[Almer]

It appears nobody has ever given a thought to Thailands long  term survival, Tourism was suffering long before Covid19, i have seen Pattaya with few places to sit at midnight Nov19 it was a job to find any tourists,  many bar girls were leaving long before this pandemic and they wont race back just because the lockdown lets  them, they may as well be in there villages up north skint than be in Pattaya skint , you will not see big spenders race back to anywhere in 2020 maybe later in 2021,  but what will they find in Pattaya?

Edited April 26, 2020 by Almer
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