Pattaya: Black sludge going into the sea was not eco-unfriendly, says City Hall

Image: Sophon Cable TV

Pattaya's City Hall hit back after a watchdog claimed sewage was seeping into the sea after floods last month.

A post on Pattaya Watchdog showed black sludge by Soi 18 Na Klua after heavy rains on February 17th. 

Environmental experts had been down to investigate.

City Hall told Sophon Cable TV that it may have looked bad but in fact this was just dirty rain water that was not in fact environmentally unfriendly. 

They promised that in the future when drainage improvements are all in place that separate drains will be used for rain water and sewage.
 

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Strange that they say its not a problem and not eco unfriendly but they are going to fix it anyway. Why fix it if it was not broken in the first place. Seems like a lie to me. 

Move on folks.  Nothing to see here.  It's all part of the plan.  It's "neo sludge" that's all.   ????

 

16 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

in fact this was just dirty rain water

????

Did you know feces are 100% natural? 

Rain water does not turn black without good reason.

A full analysis by an independent laboratory would have credibility, permit me to doubt City Hall does.

4 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Rain water does not turn black without good reason.

A full analysis by an independent laboratory would have credibility, permit me to doubt City Hall does.

I've seen runoff that is pretty black.  Usually the first runoff in an urban area that hasn't had recent precipitation will be quite heavily laden with dust and rubber particles.  Previously, I lived in Las Vegas and extended periods without rain were common.  We had to be extra careful during the initial rain as it would mix with the dust and tire debris to make a very slippery sludge. 

World class Organic Spa treatments are now available at below cost price full output will resume when the tourists are let back in ???? 

If only they'd invent scratch and sniff videos... 

We'd know in an instant.

55 minutes ago, gamb00ler said:

I've seen runoff that is pretty black.  Usually the first runoff in an urban area that hasn't had recent precipitation will be quite heavily laden with dust and rubber particles.  Previously, I lived in Las Vegas and extended periods without rain were common.  We had to be extra careful during the initial rain as it would mix with the dust and tire debris to make a very slippery sludge. 

Yes, but did it smell like S**t?????

38 minutes ago, Seismic said:

Yes, but did it smell like S**t?????

Sorry, the Rhetorical Question Dep't is closed for COVID mitigation.

there are natural sources for black water like this.

but these are the souls of people who live in Pattaya that were extracted and drained of all energy and discarded.  

2 hours ago, gamb00ler said:

I've seen runoff that is pretty black.  Usually the first runoff in an urban area that hasn't had recent precipitation will be quite heavily laden with dust and rubber particles.  Previously, I lived in Las Vegas and extended periods without rain were common.  We had to be extra careful during the initial rain as it would mix with the dust and tire debris to make a very slippery sludge. 

And more importantly it include oil and motor fluids. 

What we see in Pattaya and other large tourists towns is that the  "harmless" runoff is concentrated sewage and toxic waste. In Thailand, people pour their used paint, motor oil, cooking oil and whatever into storm drains and it collects until next big  rain pushes it down the  system into ocean.

10 hours ago, rooster59 said:

They promised that in the future when drainage improvements are all in place that separate drains will be used for rain water and sewage.

The 100 year plan! One small step for man, one huge leap for Pattaya!

10 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Rain water does not turn black without good reason.

A full analysis by an independent laboratory would have credibility, permit me to doubt City Hall does.

Don't you know, eating licorice and spitting is popular in Pattaya!

11 hours ago, rooster59 said:

They promised that in the future when drainage improvements are all in place that separate drains will be used for rain water and sewage.
 

So he openly admits that as of now they are one and the same? 

2 hours ago, jacko45k said:

So he openly admits that as of now they are one and the same? 

correct

17 hours ago, rooster59 said:

They promised that in the future when drainage improvements are all in place that separate drains will be used for rain water and sewage.

I believe you.......????

 

Pinochio from City hall has spoken!!!!

20 hours ago, rooster59 said:

not eco-unfriendly

Orwellian double-talk...
Not eco-unfriendly=eco-friendly , but no-one does not disbelieve that ????

20 hours ago, rooster59 said:

City Hall told Sophon Cable TV that it may have looked bad but in fact this was just dirty rain water that was not in fact environmentally unfriendly.

I'd ask the Pattaya governor along with city hall members to back up their words by taking a swim in the water where the outflow is... videoed for the nation to see.

21 hours ago, rooster59 said:

not eco-unfriendly

So, this beach was eco-friendly for the high spending punters in this world class resort??

21 hours ago, gamb00ler said:

I've seen runoff that is pretty black.  Usually the first runoff in an urban area that hasn't had recent precipitation will be quite heavily laden with dust and rubber particles.  Previously, I lived in Las Vegas and extended periods without rain were common.  We had to be extra careful during the initial rain as it would mix with the dust and tire debris to make a very slippery sludge. 

Unfortunately for City Hall we have had quite a lot of rain over the last couple of weeks so that tosses your theory into a cocked hat mate ????

Maybe Bertie Bassett just flushed the loo in a nearby quarantine hotel ? 

More pictures of this filthy polluted water flowing onto Wongamat Beach.

This is a major sewer leak onto Wongamat Beach near Arom Condo

And yet more pictures of the filthy, polluted water flowing onto Wongamat Beach.

Polluted water flowing into the ocean off Wongamat Beach

And yet more polluted, filthy water escaping a cover flowing into the water off Wongamat Beach.

Drain pipe discharging polluted water into the ocean off Wongamat Beach