By Hua Hin Today

 

A new privately owned landfill site has opened in the Tubtai sub district of Hua Hin. On Thursday Nov 18th the Deputy Mayor of Hua Hin, Ms. Pailin Kongphan, led municipal officials around the new site which is located at 332 Village No. 7, Tubtai subdistrict, approximately 2.5 km. away from Pranburi Dam. The 32 rai site is operated by Six Tiger Co., Ltd. after the company were formally approved to create a legal landfill in Prachuap Khiri Khan province.

 

The visiting party were shown the site’s facilities and layout by manager Mr. Nirut Jaikla. Mr. Nirut said that the company had requested permission from the Administrative Organisation to build a ‘garbage pit’ in early 2021, the application passed all the necessary regulatory steps including having been approved at a public hearing with local residents.

 

Mr. Nirut explained some of the process of creating the landfill site which included digging large pits for daily waste, with each pond filled with a HDPE plastic fabric which is 1.5mm thick and is placed at the bottom of each pit to prevent wastewater from garbage flowing into the ground. Special wells have been created to hold water in order to check for heavy metal contaminants at the site, trees have also been planted around the area to help reduce any odours coming from the site.

 

Full story: https://www.huahintoday.com/local-news/new-landfill-site-opens-hua-hin/

 

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7 hours ago, webfact said:

creating the landfill site which included digging large pits for daily waste,

I wonder if once full, and covered with soil, they will utilize any methane gas generated from the rotting rubbish???

 

" a HDPE plastic fabric which is 1.5mm thick and is placed at the bottom of each pit to prevent wastewater from garbage flowing into the ground."

 

I wonder if 1.5 mm  is really going to stop contamination of the ground water.  It is going to be subjected to considerable pressures which may vary in space and time causing cracks and tears in the 1.5 mm lining.  I have not examined a lining properly, but my memory of such a lining for a land-fill site in an old sand pit in Surrey (England)  is that  it was probably about 20 mm thick.

14 hours ago, webfact said:

Ms. Pailin Kongphan

She's going to make a lot of money.

 

Anyone living close will be the losers.

 

Despite whatever they say Thailand allows anything and everything to be dumped.  

 

Batteries,chemicals, gasoline, solvents,etc.

 

An owner can become very wealthy owning a garbage dump.

Call a spade a spade, it is a rubbish dump.

Landfill is when you want to raise the level of your land, preferably with clean waste dirt or clay