I took a walk along Beach Road today to see the many shade trees cut down to build the new walking trail. I almost cried when I saw so many trees cut down. There was extensive damage done to the beach from the rains today. How are they going to build a new walking trail when the beach is washed away?

May be planting some trees on the beach could help to prevent rain washing the sand away ????

 

Oh, wait... 

 

 

 

Don't you worry... the government still has plenty of money to divide between themselves and the beach beautification company... everything will look beautiful, when at the end of the year, the one million tourists to come will have visited Pattaya

world class resort with world class beaches my lily white ...................

I don't remember the beach washouts being very bad before the 2013 beach redo tree massacre........If I remember right the beach did have washouts but they were mostly pretty modest.......But ever since 2013 the beach washouts have been huge..... 

Pics of Beach Road yesterday about 1040 am.

Same same...every time. Predicted this months ago. No surprise at all.

 

Good post & pics tho! Thx. 

So the big pipes they just finished installing has achieved nothing?

And from my little perch on the 32nd Floor of the Hilton this afternoon....since my place got flooded, the cockroaches moved in so I moved out.....????????

Get rid of this Mayor

Great pictures.

 

It doesn't take much for Pattaya to flood. 

But this looks like the heavens gates opened up and deluged the once prosperous city.

 

 

8 hours ago, Saraburi121 said:

Pics of Beach Road yesterday about 1040 am.

Well according to one member here who posted many months ago that the beach was designed to wash away every time it rains, clever bit of ( financial ) planning by someone if you ask me. ????????????

Maybe better to just get rid of the beach.  Fill it up with rocks. 

9 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

World class fake beach.

Here is my take on the Pattaya Master Plan drainage system currently being put in place the last few year from my observation throughout town guess I have just too much time. 

 

Lets take Sukhumvit Road as the high point and these 3 connecting road to the Beach. Pattaya Nua, Pattaya Klang and Pattaya Tai in he middle of Sukhumvit you have large deep drenches to hold the rain when they was building the tunnel they put in large black PVC tubing to hold and carry the rain water underground. At points like Nua and Tai if one go just before the signal lights when not raining they will see no matter how steep these drenches in the end it has to travel through a 30-32 inch cement drain so once these drenches fill up due to the small cement drain heavy rain like the other day the water pour out into the road.

 

At these location these small cement drain into new larger PVC black pipes which everyone seen them putting in throughout the City the larger pipes allows for more storage so these major Soi don't flood as much the water is still there but not on the surface. All the water from these 3 major roads all lead to the beach. You locate majority of the erosion damage on the beach after each rain storm it is usually at these location. Top Nua to Dusit hotel top of beach road, Klang soi 9, and Tai end of beach road I think one of the picture shown indicates it. There have been extensive work to put in drains up and down Beach road but is just to hold the water below rather to sit on the surface but once it rains long and hard the drains backup and water comes to the surface over flows the new beach road sidewalks and starts to find a path to the ocean mean damaging everything in its path picture presented by another poster will show my point.

 

The top of Dophin Circle heading down Naklua new larger pipes underground all head down to the Fish Market right into the ocean this is pretty much the same happening down on the beaches heading to Sirracha. When it comes to Jomtien beach everything from Sukhumvit rolls down to the beach but since Jomtien beach is far longer you don't see the damage like on Beach road.

 

There have been work all over town on 3rd road certain Soi between Soi Buakhao and 3rd larger underground pipes to hold more water so it isn't on the surface but in the end the pipe leading into the ocean is still 30-32 inches wide so once those new larger pipes fill up the water back out of the new drain grills and onto the surface which is why Baukhao is always a river?

 

I would surmise that a great % of the rain water goes into the ocean since there aren't many or any reservoirs that I can see in throughout Pattaya. Just a opinion from a guy who runs around a lot?????

 

 

1 hour ago, balo said:

Maybe better to just get rid of the beach.  Fill it up with rocks. 

Mix the rocks, sand and some cement for a bigger parking lot ( no trees)

Just invite the Dutch, not me personally as i know nothing about water management, but my country men are known for cheese, weed and dry feet.

2 hours ago, balo said:

Maybe better to just get rid of the beach.  Fill it up with rocks. 

Or pave it and make a big parking for chinese buses.

No problem, same as last year after a heavy rain fall.

will be all fixed in a couple of days as per the norm…..

11 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

You can say what you want but this water cascade in front of the shopping mall doesn't look bad.

21 minutes ago, PB172111 said:

No problem, same as last year after a heavy rain fall.

will be all fixed in a couple of days as per the norm…..

At what cost - or do you think the diggers do it out of the goodness of their hearts ? 

24 minutes ago, PB172111 said:

No problem, same as last year after a heavy rain fall.

will be all fixed in a couple of days as per the norm…..

Last year you say, it's not even September yet, how many times have the diggers been on the beach putting the sand back in place ? At least 3, and that's being generous possibly more ????

12 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Oh look, a waterfall feature

NEO Pattaya in all its Perfection. ????

I still wait to see this underground toilets they are building.

 

Will need scuba gear to use it.

I first visited Pattaya back in the early to mid 1980's and I dont remember seeing the beach although I only stayed a couple of days.  I seem to remember a lot of vegetation along 1 side of the road and imagined the beach was obscured on the other side of it.  Did Pattaya suffer this damage back then or is it just a recent problem?  It would be interesting to see photos of beach road back then if anybody has any?

13 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

 

Good photo, Scuba.

 

It sums up, Pattaya, and Thailand in general.  

 

You can stay in a nice hotel, condo, or house, but as soon as you step outside, you are in 3rd World infrastructure.  

22 hours ago, Espanol said:

May be planting some trees on the beach could help to prevent rain washing the sand away ????

 

Oh, wait... 

 

 

 

How will roots hold the surface sand in place? You'll just end up with exposed roots.

6 hours ago, chilly07 said:

So the big pipes they just finished installing has achieved nothing?

The point was to improve drainage.  It was never going to prevent floods because they simply cannot make pipes big enough to drain billions of gallons of monsoon rain falling in an hour.