Pollution In The Ping River

[PhotoJohn]

It's normal to see water coming out of this pipe, but I've never seen it so black as it was this morning.

My neighbors say they see it like this fairly often.

The location is just north of the Nakorn Ping Bridge, in front of the Municipal Building.

I'm wondering what this is and why it's occassionally much darker than normal.

[Gonzo the Face]

Good guess might be that at the gov't office commissary yesterday it was dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate for desert.

[slapout]

Another guess, they are cleaning one of the sewage laden klongs between the river and the old city.

[WinnieTheKhwai]

^ yeah, that would make sense.. Mae Kha stream is pretty horrible this time of year.. I'd divert it into the river too.

[Disander]

Could be a high content of mud/silt sediment.

[daoyai]

All "wastewater" flows eventually to the Ping and onward to the Chao Praya, until it reaches the Singa brewery... then the cycle begins again.

[WinnieTheKhwai]

All "wastewater" flows eventually to the Ping and onward to the Chao Praya, until it reaches the Singa brewery... then the cycle begins again.

!!!

[elektrified]

All "wastewater" flows eventually to the Ping and onward to the Chao Praya, until it reaches the Singa brewery... then the cycle begins again.

I quite drinking Singha years ago when I read that it is brewed on the banks of the Chao Phraya!

[Rancid]

I was thinking of buying a kayak and doing some paddling for needed exercise on the river (lovely firm pecs and a back screaming for clawing), however when I used to do that on the Tweed River in Australia whenever you got hot you would just roll into the inviting clear water. After reading this maybe that idea really just wouldn't float here.

[uptheos]

After reading this maybe that idea really just wouldn't float here.

No but lots of other floatie's.

Dip your head in there and you're a pharmaceutical company's dream.