Thailand – Coastlines erosion and receding in Thailand

[snoop1130]

 

Most of the Thai coastlines, which extend for more than 3150 km, have been facing erosion due to different reasons.

 

Chantaburi coastlines are one of those with the severe coast erosion problem as some of its coastlines have eroded as deep as 1 kilometer into the land within 10 years.

 

Although specialists and coastal residents believe that natural disasters such as large waves and monsoons were the main cause of erosion, however Dr. Pornsri Suthanaruk, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources, pointed out that the most concerning reason are the way people use the land and make changes to its surfaces; such as building shrimp ponds or marine life which can lead to weakness to the land’s stability.

 

He added that the Marine and Coastal Resources Department is running a project to build bamboo fences to reduce erosion in mangrove forests.

 

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[ThailandRyan]

Thats why you have wetlands and preservation areas so that fools do not build up against the edges of the coast and cause damage themselves.  

7 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Dr. Pornsri Suthanaruk, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources, pointed out that the most concerning reason are the way people use the land and make changes to its surfaces; such as building shrimp ponds or marine life which can lead to weakness to the land’s stability.

 

[Ombra]

Fifteen years ago or so, a breakwater was built where I live in the south of Prachuab Khirikhan province. It gave the fishermen sheltered anchorage, but quickly led to coastal erosion.

 

As I had a friend who once studied coastal engineering at Southampton Uni in the UK, I looked to see how many Thai universities had a department of coastal or maritime engineering. There was not one. It was just one subject in the Water Resources departments. No wonder the destruction continues.

 

 

[hotchilli]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

He added that the Marine and Coastal Resources Department is running a project to build bamboo fences to reduce erosion in mangrove forests.

Amazing Thailand.

[GreasyFingers]

1 hour ago, Ombra said:

Fifteen years ago or so, a breakwater was built where I live in the south of Prachuab Khirikhan province. It gave the fishermen sheltered anchorage, but quickly led to coastal erosion.

 

As I had a friend who once studied coastal engineering at Southampton Uni in the UK, I looked to see how many Thai universities had a department of coastal or maritime engineering. There was not one. It was just one subject in the Water Resources departments. No wonder the destruction continues.

 

 

It is just not Thailand. The university trained experts got it all wrong on the Gold Coast where they now take the sand back to where it came from.

[Isaan sailor]

The mangrove forests play an important role in coastal ecosystems.  Sadly, they have given way to shrimp farms who discharge poisonous chemicals into the bays.

[seajae]

in Thailand making money os far more important than taking care of the land, you can see them destroying mangrove areas to give them more land to do whatever they want and no govt intervention, there is no consideration given to the ecosystem at all nor any thought into the erosion caused by what they have done. Yje results speak for themselves, you only have to go to the coast line anywhere to see the damage that has been done over the years but it is also inland as well, unfortunately a great many thais simply do not care about the enviroment

[nauseus]

No point in blaming the monsoon, which has been an annual feature for at least 15 million years. The destruction of mangroves and their roots mean that shallow marine sediments are no longer held in place by those roots and that erosion is inevitable. Remnants of mangrove areas east and west of the Chao Phraya delta still exist but little is left. Mangrove clearing for new shrimp farms is largely the reason near Bangkok (you can see so many from the air) and probably the same in Chantaburi, too.

[Sydebolle]

Good luck the submarines have not arrived yet otherwise they might get already stucked in the shoreline mud. Remember the aircraft carrier from Spain with solid grown barnacles all over the underwater surface? 

Maybe plan for a floating harbour inmidst of the Golf of Thailand - otherwise that submarine business of the navy might ............... let's not get there!