Consultants draft 10.2 billion baht, 9-year plan to solve Pattaya flooding woes
PATTAYA:--Solving Pattaya’s chronic flooding problems would take nine years and more than 10 billion baht, according to university consultants hired to draft a water-management master plan.

Theerawut Banyasopon, director-general of King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, outlined the three-phase project to city officials and presidents of Pattaya’s 42 community groups April 30.

The university’s Center for Water Engineering and Infrastructures Research was hired to develop a water-drainage and flood-management plan to solve perennial flooding in the Soi Buakaow, Soi Phettrakul, Pacific Village, Soi Bongkot, Soi Wat Thamsamakkee and Thepprasit Villa neighborhoods. The resolution suggested is neither cheap nor quick.

Consultants said the three main factors behind the flooding problem are the under-capacity of the existing drainage system, surface runoff from higher areas in East Pattaya, and that efficiency of the drainage system itself has been hobbled by commercial development.
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-- Pattaya Mail 2014-05-09

10.2 billion Baht.

Wow.

An enormous amount of funds to "play with".

City Hall must have a "siphon" team making calculations already.

Mercs all round just for starters.

Well there's a serious cash cow for somebody!!

Pattaya does not have "Chronic" flooding problems, even the worst downpours are usually disappeared in a few hours, that sort of money could go a long way to solve places like Ayutthia's flooding problems, parts under a meter or two of water for a few weeks if not months - now that's Chronic flooding!

It just shows the problems, that unregulated building has brought, and city hall is responsible for that.

But Ayutthai's flooding has nothing to do with Pattaya. I dont think Pattaya is going to finance Ayutthai's flood control.

In all fairness this consultant appears to be proposing that some infrastructure be built that will handle the current situation and the proposed expansion of the area. In the full article there are proposals that (heaven forbid) make sense. It is a big project, but it might work. I know it is not the normal way things are done but we can dream......

At least it is not big propellers to pump the water down stream.

Does it include the 35% kickback?