Beach Road pumps flunk first test

[Rimmer]

Beach Road pumps flunk first test

PATTAYA:--The much-vaunted new pumps installed to solve Beach Road’s incessant flooding problem flunked their first test, as a Halloween downpour proved too much for equipment operating near Soi 6.

Deputy Mayor Verawat Khakhay and Sanitation Engineering Department workers went to the beach between sois 6 and 6/1 Oct. 31 to see for themselves how the four high-power pumps struggled to keep up with the heavy runoff from the latest storm to thrash the city.

Verawat acknowledged that the quantity of water was too much for the four pumps. Beach Road, thus, backed up again, with water reaching into the tire wells of pickup trucks and drowning motorbikes.

- See more at: http://www.pattayamail.com/localnews/beach-road-pumps-flunk-first-test-42564#sthash.gJPV1RXC.dpuf

-- Pattaya Mail 2014-11-07

[Rimmer]

Quite a few pictures of the storm,lightning and flooding on the link above

[ClutchClark]

It should have worked...the pumps handle 550 cu meters of water per hour...lets see, take the surface area of the watershed...multiply by volume of rainfall per minute...er, no, divide by number...er, all this thinking is giving me an itchy head.

[EyesWideOpen]

That Halloween rainstorm was a light drizzle compared to the rain that just

came down this afternoon Nov 7. I have never seen such heavy rain

here. So I suspect those pumps had another bad day...

[jcisco]

Maybe need to get some infrastructure spending approved and go all out and get one of these...

Probably be able to suck BKK dry in the event of a flood......lol

[doggie888888]

Now I know the reason for building one extra Lane of road on what ought to be pattaya' s prime natural asset...To accommodate those ugly pumps because apparently no engineer can work out how to get rain water into the sea, a mere meter or two away.

[LennyW]

Maybe need to get some infrastructure spending approved and go all out and get one of these...

Probably be able to suck BKK dry in the event of a flood......lol

How would it, ? that's a boat engine. Do you work for the Thai government by any chance?

Edited November 9, 2014 by LennyW

[ClutchClark]

Maybe need to get some infrastructure spending approved and go all out and get one of these...

Probably be able to suck BKK dry in the event of a flood......lol

How would it, ? that's a boat engine. Do you work for the Thai government by any chance?

I think he posted in jest ;-)

BTW, technically speaking its a ship engine.

[jcisco]

How would it, ? that's a boat engine. Do you work for the Thai government by any chance?

See the links below, while the engine may very well be useful in a ship, this one is to drive a pumping station in New Orleans.

Welcome to a few years ago mate.

http://gizmodo.com/5340238/worlds-biggest-water-pump-under-construction-in-new-orleans-wouldve-been-cooler-four-years-ago

http://gizmodo.com/5800072/the-worlds-largest-water-pump-moves-15-olympic-sized-swimming-pools-every-minute

[LennyW]

How would it, ? that's a boat engine. Do you work for the Thai government by any chance?

See the links below, while the engine may very well be useful in a ship, this one is to drive a pumping station in New Orleans.

Welcome to a few years ago mate.

http://gizmodo.com/5340238/worlds-biggest-water-pump-under-construction-in-new-orleans-wouldve-been-cooler-four-years-ago

http://gizmodo.com/5800072/the-worlds-largest-water-pump-moves-15-olympic-sized-swimming-pools-every-minute

Did you actually read the article .....

There aren't a whole lot of companies that make combustion engines that cartoonishly huge, so my money's on something from a company like Wartsila-Sulzer, which makes engines like this to spin the props on ultramassive cargo ships, and conceivably, pumps:

Like i said, that is a boat engine - or a ship if that suits you better, it is not a pump or a pump motor.

[jcisco]

How would it, ? that's a boat engine. Do you work for the Thai government by any chance?

See the links below, while the engine may very well be useful in a ship, this one is to drive a pumping station in New Orleans.

Welcome to a few years ago mate.

http://gizmodo.com/5340238/worlds-biggest-water-pump-under-construction-in-new-orleans-wouldve-been-cooler-four-years-ago

http://gizmodo.com/5800072/the-worlds-largest-water-pump-moves-15-olympic-sized-swimming-pools-every-minute

Did you actually read the article .....

There aren't a whole lot of companies that make combustion engines that cartoonishly huge, so my money's on something from a company like Wartsila-Sulzer, which makes engines like this to spin the props on ultramassive cargo ships, and conceivably, pumps:

Like i said, that is a boat engine - or a ship if that suits you better, it is not a pump or a pump motor.

No mate, cannot read.

http://www.aaees.org/images/e3swinners/e3competition-winners-2012honor-design109.jpg

if that makes you feel better that is the actual installation.

[LennyW]

How would it, ? that's a boat engine. Do you work for the Thai government by any chance?

See the links below, while the engine may very well be useful in a ship, this one is to drive a pumping station in New Orleans.

Welcome to a few years ago mate.

http://gizmodo.com/5340238/worlds-biggest-water-pump-under-construction-in-new-orleans-wouldve-been-cooler-four-years-ago

http://gizmodo.com/5800072/the-worlds-largest-water-pump-moves-15-olympic-sized-swimming-pools-every-minute

Did you actually read the article .....

There aren't a whole lot of companies that make combustion engines that cartoonishly huge, so my money's on something from a company like Wartsila-Sulzer, which makes engines like this to spin the props on ultramassive cargo ships, and conceivably, pumps:

Like i said, that is a boat engine - or a ship if that suits you better, it is not a pump or a pump motor.

No mate, cannot read.

http://www.aaees.org/images/e3swinners/e3competition-winners-2012honor-design109.jpg

if that makes you feel better that is the actual installation.

There you go now, clearly not the same engines at all, these are Caterpillar engines.

Edited November 9, 2014 by LennyW