City Hall spends 3.1 million baht on beach sandbags to prevent beach erosion

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City Hall spends 3.1 million baht on beach sandbags to prevent beach erosion

Beach vendors say, “We’ve already tired that”

PATTAYA:--Had anyone at city hall asked them, Pattaya beach vendors would have told city officials that they’re recycled plan to prevent beach erosion with giant sandbags was a waste of time.

After all, the vendors tried the same thing last year.

City-owned backhoes began arranging large sandbags at the entrance to Pattaya Beach at the intersection of Beach and Central Roads May 5. The 3.1 million baht in bags - each one 15 meters long, 4 meters wide and a meter thick - came across as a tacit admission by Pattaya officials that they’ve given up trying to fix the city’s endemic flooding problems, at least for now.

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-- Pattaya Mail 2014-05-16

[Pattaya28]

City Hall doesn't know which way to turn.

3.1 million baht for sand-bags to stop beach erosion, yet there's a massive project to extend the beach to 35 metres.

2 projects overlapping.

That's an enormous amount of mis-routing of funds available.

City Hall peeps have really hit the jackpot !!

[Chang_paarp]

Fist they have to secure a beach before they can extend it. The King Kanute trick of holding back the tide and resulting loss of sand will be interesting to watch from afar.

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[JSixpack]

City Hall doesn't know which way to turn.

3.1 million baht for sand-bags to stop beach erosion, yet there's a massive project to extend the beach to 35 metres.

2 projects overlapping.

That's an enormous amount of mis-routing of funds available.

City Hall peeps have really hit the jackpot !!

No problem. Can walk and chew gum at the same time--believe it or not.

Before, you were bitching that they do nothing, ignoring the new promenade and widening of Beach Rd. Now you're complaining they're doing TWO things.

Yawn.

[Tokay]

31 million baht on sandbags.

I love this place.

[eefoo]

If those sandbags are 15 metres by 4 metres, that's one heckuva big Volvo helping 3 giants to lay them.

[Pete Beale]

They're probably filling the bags with sand taken from the waters edge.

[Asia2000]

Trucks delivered sand. The sandbags was 4m long, 1m wide, less than 1/2 m thick.

[JSixpack]

They're probably filling the bags with sand taken from the waters edge.

You're doin' great so far in your TV posting career.

[slygeeza]

the sand is coming from the same place its going back to, just that its now in bags with about a meter of loose sand over the top, so when it rains only a meter of sand will need to be bulldozed back over the bags to repair the mess. its really just a partial solution because for some reason they dont want to pipe the water out to sea

[cup-O-coffee]

Intelligent people remove air from a bottle by putting something substantial in the bottle.

The Thai solution is to suck, and create a vacuum.