webfact Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 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 Get our Daily Newsletter - Click HERE to subscribe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ombra Posted June 9 Popular Post Share Posted June 9 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. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hotchilli Posted June 9 Popular Post Share Posted June 9 Get rid of the umbrella vendors you'd get half the beach back. 2 2 2 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ChrisY1 Posted June 10 Popular Post Share Posted June 10 What a beautiful sight! Umbrella mafia rule in Cha Am.....tyre slashing for non customer parking ......and the beach sucks! 1 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenkins9039 Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 1.4 billion baht... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JimHuaHin Posted June 10 Popular Post Share Posted June 10 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. 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoreFarang Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoreFarang Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHansen Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PETERTHEEATER Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 Those sneaky b......s directly opposite in Pattaya sneak over at night and borrow sand for their beach..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digger70 Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 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 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john donson Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 the sea gives and the sea takes and the contractors fill their pockets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newnative Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 Normal. Beach communities need to protect their biggest asset--the beach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metisdead Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 A post using a foreign language has been removed as this is an English language forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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