Rimmer Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimmer Posted November 7, 2014 Author Share Posted November 7, 2014 Quite a few pictures of the storm,lightning and flooding on the link above Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClutchClark Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesWideOpen Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcisco Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doggie888888 Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LennyW Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClutchClark Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcisco Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LennyW Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcisco Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LennyW Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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