Pattaya Beach repaired after heavy rains and flooding hit the city over the past weekend

[morrobay]

On 9/8/2021 at 5:59 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

 

 

IMO the whole "make Pattaya a world class tourist destination" thing is never going to happen because everything they touch turns to dross, as it's done as cheaply as possible, for the usual reasons. IMO same reason Swampy is a lemon instead of something as good as Changi.

Done as cheaply as possible and as incompetently as possible. Check out this "retaining wall" plastic boxes filled with gravel.  The sand is the least of their problems along the beach. 

[thaibeachlovers]

11 hours ago, morrobay said:

Check out this "retaining wall" plastic boxes filled with gravel. 

To be fair, there are concrete slabs, but the way they have collapsed indicates they were not dug down very far at all. They need to go down to bedrock. Even the Bible has something to say about "building on sand" not being a good idea.

[thaibeachlovers]

Oh, I'd love to be the proverbial fly on the wall in city hall right now. I wonder just how they are going to try and BS their way out of a situation they, IMO, are responsible for causing.

[Ralf001]

15 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Oh, I'd love to be the proverbial fly on the wall in city hall right now. I wonder just how they are going to try and BS their way out of a situation they, IMO, are responsible for causing.

They'd all be getting a cut of the contractor coin so it would be high fives all round whilst deciding  what colour and options for the new mercedes !!

[morrobay]

44 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

To be fair, there are concrete slabs, but the way they have collapsed indicates they were not dug down very far at all. They need to go down to bedrock. Even the Bible has something to say about "building on sand" not being a good idea.

To be fair maybe you should let the folks that are here  comment on what all is physically happening. Concrete slabs ? You mean the collapsing one in middle photo.

[morrobay]

7 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

To be fair, there are concrete slabs, but the way they have collapsed indicates they were not dug down very far at all. They need to go down to bedrock. 

Are these the concrete capped slabs your imagining.  Before/after. Again black plastic boxes filled up with some kind of glue sand mix. Unbelievable. 

[Leaver]

On 9/10/2021 at 5:33 PM, morrobay said:

Done as cheaply as possible and as incompetently as possible. Check out this "retaining wall" plastic boxes filled with gravel.  The sand is the least of their problems along the beach. 

 

People pick up a glossy brochure in their home country and book a holiday here, spending their hard earned.  

 

They get here, and see the things pictured in your post.  

 

They have to be disappointed tourists.

 

How many people do they tell when they get home, by way of word of mouth, and social media?  

[thaibeachlovers]

17 hours ago, morrobay said:

To be fair maybe you should let the folks that are here  comment on what all is physically happening. Concrete slabs ? You mean the collapsing one in middle photo.

No I don't, and I'm not going to correct someone that tries to dictate who can comment on here.

[morrobay]

On 9/11/2021 at 10:52 PM, Leaver said:

 

People pick up a glossy brochure in their home country and book a holiday here, spending their hard earned.  

 

They get here, and see the things pictured in your post.  

 

They have to be disappointed tourists.

 

How many people do they tell when they get home, by way of word of mouth, and social media?  

World War 3. Even the sandbags are collapsing. These days the visitors most likely to be leaving Pattaya to its troubles - because it's got them. 

[simon43]

On 9/10/2021 at 5:17 PM, Leaver said:

 

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I watched that video.  If I were able to leave and return to Laos without quarantine, I'd be on the plane today to Vietnam for a nice holiday!!

[johng]

1 minute ago, simon43 said:

If I were able to leave and return to Laos

I thought you where leaving Laos and returning to Thailand ?

[thcosh]

5 hours ago, johng said:

I thought you where leaving Laos and returning to Thailand ?

Dont you know how he perfectly knows what he wants to do and manage his life ?! Just check his nickname and you will find more...

 

[Leaver]

On 9/15/2021 at 3:17 PM, morrobay said:

World War 3. Even the sandbags are collapsing. These days the visitors most likely to be leaving Pattaya to its troubles - because it's got them. 

 

It's had the same troubles for decades, despite bringing in billions of baht over those years.  

 

As the word gets around that poorer countries in South East Asia are building it bigger, better, and faster, Thailand will be left with nothing but cheap package holiday Chinese, Indian and Russians, and sex tourists.  It was pretty much at that point pre covid. 

[Leaver]

On 9/15/2021 at 3:34 PM, simon43 said:

I watched that video.  If I were able to leave and return to Laos without quarantine, I'd be on the plane today to Vietnam for a nice holiday!!

 

It's not just about the covid era.   How can Thailand compete against a neighbouring country that's proper investing in tourism infrastructure? 

 

Whilst Thailand plods along with its same old corrupt ways, to the detriment of the tourism industry, and the tourists, their competition is offering better tourism infrastructure, thus a more pleasant holiday, and at a cheaper price. 

 

Thailand had a shrinking western tourism market pre covid.  Not hard to see where that lost western tourism market will be going, post covid, and beyond.   

[morrobay]

The water from the pump station is now being diverted to the outfall from the beach rd. drainage  with a cross connection.  I guess to conceal that black water discharge thats bad publicity. But how is this going to affect the existing drainage?  Could it even cause a backflow? 

Edited September 18, 2021 by morrobay

[Leaver]

9 hours ago, morrobay said:

But how is this going to affect the existing drainage?  Could it even cause a backflow? 

 

I am guessing it will cause a backflow, and eventually make its way to the beach anyway.  

 

All this will do is move the photo op to another location.

 

Edited September 18, 2021 by Leaver

[Saraburi121]

Woke up at 6am to the sounds of heavy equipment while staying at the Hilton Pattaya this morning.  Backhoe and loaders were reclaiming sand from the waters edge to fill the wash outs from the flood a few weeks ago. Photo taken from the 26th floor.  

[overherebc]

On 8/30/2021 at 9:46 AM, Scrotobike said:

Pattaya sand box has been postponed - they keep loosing the sand. Nature shows the way, it creates run off channels in the beach - how about leaving these channels alone or even possibly applying some engineering at these sites to help nature?

 

Ah less opportunity for skimming off the top, middle and bottom. A repeating brown envelope, hope they recycle the old envelopes as they are used often?

Something never thought of anywhere in the world like concrete drainaige channels with walkways over them.

Those would be a first anywhere.

Where's the sarcasm button??

[thaibeachlovers]

5 hours ago, overherebc said:

Something never thought of anywhere in the world like concrete drainaige channels with walkways over them.

Those would be a first anywhere.

Where's the sarcasm button??

Indeed. Way back in 1973 Singapore built just such a walkway over a drainage canal along Orchard Rd.

 

That they COULD fix the problem if they wanted to is without doubt IMO, but do they WANT to fix it, that's the real question, IMO?

[Rookiescot]

Perhaps they have the wrong kind of sand.

[morrobay]

On 9/18/2021 at 9:53 PM, Leaver said:

 

 

 

 

On 9/18/2021 at 12:10 PM, morrobay said:

The water from the pump station is now being diverted to the outfall from the beach rd. drainage  with a cross connection.  I guess to conceal that black water discharge thats bad publicity. But how is this going to affect the existing drainage?  Could it even cause a backflow? 

 

 

Was at outfall yesterday after afternoon rains and pumpstation discharge is OK being successfully redirected out the left channel of the beach drainage outflow culvert. 

Edited September 21, 2021 by morrobay

[thaibeachlovers]

3 hours ago, morrobay said:

 

Was at outfall yesterday after afternoon rains and pumpstation discharge is OK being successfully redirected out the left channel of the beach drainage outflow culvert. 

What is the new concrete construction left side of the lower photo? Is it a pier, or a big drain taking the water out from the shore?

[LarrySR]

Pattaya City needs to buy a Drag Line Crane and permanently position it on the beach to steadily recover the sand that gets washed out after every storm.

I'd suggest making it a tourist attraction offering punters to operate an hour at a time for say, 1,000Bt.

Looks like fun.

[thaibeachlovers]

1 minute ago, LarrySR said:

Pattaya City needs to buy a Drag Line Crane and permanently position it on the beach to steadily recover the sand that gets washed out after every storm.

I'd suggest making it a tourist attraction offering punters to operate an hour at a time for say, 1,000Bt.

Looks like fun.

LOL. It'd probably break down and become a tourist attraction in its own right.

[morrobay]

Forget about it.  With a little effort you can go over to Bamboo Beach + beach bar off soi-16 after last right turn. And since it is not in the bays it gets some nicer water from out in the channel. 

[Leaver]

On 9/20/2021 at 2:10 PM, Rookiescot said:

Perhaps they have the wrong kind of sand.

 

More like the wrong kind of grey matter.