Pattaya, August 28 [PATTAYA ONE NEWS] : On Thursday Afternoon, we made our way down to Pattaya Beach following reports from Tourists that the beach was covered in a blanket of refuse, When we arrived we were amazed to see the amount of rubbish which had been washed up on the beach and was floating in the sea. There was also a large amount of wooden sticks which cannot be explained at this time. A 2km stretch of the beach was covered in the refuse but this appeared not to put off some beachgoers. We contacted Pattaya City Hall who were unaware of the refuse but promised us that they would send cleaners down to the beach to remove the waste. For now, we ask you to exercise caution and suggest you do not swim in the water off Pattaya Beach until the refuse has been removed.

Source and pictures at:

http://www.pattayaone.net/news/2009/august...8_08_52_3.shtml

lol.. Welcome to the family tourist resort

This sort of refuse problem happens on Wongamat almost on a daily basis. Cleaning it up is a typical short term fix which is all about City Hall can muster; problem is bound to recur. They can't even keep a stretch of beach clean and they want to buiild a monorail?!?! Great leap forward indeed.

Forget the Pattaya Grand Sale or other gimmicky giveaways, the beach is supposed to be one of the city's major assets. Let it regenerate and Pattaya will forever be entrenched deservedly as a seedy sex town and nothing more.

This happens every time we get a bit of stormy weather, unfortunately.

Let it regenerate and Pattaya will forever be entrenched deservedly as a seedy sex town and nothing more.

"Let it regenerate"?

oops :-)

regenerate or degenerate...i sometimes wonder if it makes any difference

Pattaya, August 28 [PATTAYA ONE NEWS] : On Thursday Afternoon, we made our way down to Pattaya Beach following reports from Tourists that the beach was covered in a blanket of refuse, When we arrived we were amazed to see the amount of rubbish which had been washed up on the beach and was floating in the sea. There was also a large amount of wooden sticks which cannot be explained at this time. A 2km stretch of the beach was covered in the refuse but this appeared not to put off some beachgoers. We contacted Pattaya City Hall who were unaware of the refuse but promised us that they would send cleaners down to the beach to remove the waste. For now, we ask you to exercise caution and suggest you do not swim in the water off Pattaya Beach until the refuse has been removed.

Source and pictures at:

http://www.pattayaone.net/news/2009/august...8_08_52_3.shtml

Used to live in Bang Saen, and it happened there too.........around the same time of year. Every morning around 6, some trucks with cleaners came to clean the beaches and every morning there was the same amount of 'garbage'. Seems that noth much can be done about it.

Must have been like the day after Loy Kratong, The sea and beaches are a right mess.

I think the problem is that the cleaners put all the refuse they collect on a boat and dump it at sea. Good way to stay in work