City councilmen check drains, order fixes for Soi Buakaow side street’s flooding problem

PATTAYA:--Pattaya City Council members inspected storm drains and discussed flooding with Soi Buakaow-area residents fearing yet another water-logged rainy season.

Councilmen Vichai Rodpai, Somnuk Boonmachai, Nakhon Phonlookin, and Banjong Banthoonprayuk opened drain covers on side-street Soi Taengmo to check whether waste was stuck, creating obstructions for runoff. They ordered Chaluay Ditsadakarn, chief of maintenance for drainage pipes, to bring in vacuum trucks to suck out the pipes for 300 meters.

The city brought in heavy equipment to clean out the drains, but conceded that this is only a temporary measure.

Soi Taengmo, off Soi Buakaow, is a congested community located on low-lying ground filled with a couple hundred 30-year-old row houses. Residents say the street floods every rainy season, with water as deep as waist-high.
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-- Pattaya Mail 2014-03-28

The "dark-shirted" pointer is "pointing" with purpose, unlike the "blue/white-shirted" pointer who's offering a half-hearted "point".

Now what's the story

so the big hole in the grating is ok just a cursory check and maybe a couple bucket loads of crap etc taken out problem solved

1 mill please

Rainy season it will be the same as ever

I remember that some time- ago Soi Honey was dug up and re-concreted-- after heavy rain a lot of the water did not fall towards the drains --

motorbikes drove through the resulting large puddles at speed -- giving any pedestrians -that's ME--a free dirty water shower

I suppose still the same ??