1.4 billion baht allocated to combat erosion on Cha-am Beach

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Deputy Minister of Transport Ms. Monporn Charoensri recently visited Cha-am Beach to inspect a 1.4 billion baht beach sand replenishment project aimed at reducing erosion, restoring the beach, and boosting the local tourism economy.

 

The project, scheduled to begin later this year, is set to cover a total distance of 6.05 kilometers along the beach.

 

The project is divided into three phases:

 

Full story: HUA HIN TODAY 2024-06-10

 

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[Ombra]

The last time I looked, not one Thai university has a Faculty or College of Coastal or Marine Engineering. The subject is just one within a department of water resources. The result is a serious lack of expertise and a coastline that suffers damage from ill-informed decisions. 

[hotchilli]

Get rid of the umbrella vendors you'd get half the beach back.

[ChrisY1]

What a beautiful sight! Umbrella mafia rule in Cha Am.....tyre slashing for non customer parking ......and the beach sucks! 

[Jenkins9039]

1.4 billion baht...

[JimHuaHin]

1.4 billion Baht for a project which all the scientific evidence suggests will fail.

 

Nevertheless, most of the Baht 1.4 billion will go into the pockets of local officials, local marfia and a few national and provincial government officials.

[OneMoreFarang]

1.4 billion THB or 1,400,000,000 THB

Why not 1.2 billion or 1.6 billion. I guess it's just one of those not so important decimal digits. That would be only 200,000,000 THB difference.

The problem with numbers like that is that most of us know it's a lot of money. But how much? 

 

I don't remember if it was Parkinson's law or something like that where they explained that people understand something like their own income and maybe 10 times as much. But if the numbers are 100 times more or 1,000 times more it's just a huge amount of money.

Maybe the above project should be explained like 231,405 THB per meter of beach. That's the cost of a car for every meter of the beach for 6km. 

Someone will make a hell of a lot of money with that project.

[OneMoreFarang]

18 minutes ago, JimHuaHin said:

1.4 billion Baht for a project which all the scientific evidence suggests will fail.

 

Nevertheless, most of the Baht 1.4 billion will go into the pockets of local officials, local marfia and a few national and provincial government officials.

And because it will fail, they can do it again in 10 years or so. Perfect! 

[WHansen]

6 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Get rid of the umbrella vendors you'd get half the beach back.

Agreed.

And get rid of or control the 200 food venders that appear every day at around 4pm that make trying to drive or ride down beach road (Ruamjit alley) near impossible.

[PETERTHEEATER]

Those sneaky b......s directly opposite in Pattaya sneak over at night and borrow sand for their beach.....

[digger70]

1.4 billion baht allocated to combat erosion

 

Pretty stupid idea to waste money.

Just move on to an other beach.

Nature  takes  it course  one Can't stop that . It happens all over the world that beaches getting smaller or moving and some getting bigger. 

Same as with rivers they change course over time . 

[john donson]

the sea gives and the sea takes

 

and the contractors fill their pockets

[newnative]

Normal.  Beach communities need to protect their biggest asset--the beach.  

[metisdead]

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