Elevated apartment complex causing flood problem on Soi Kophai

[Rimmer]

Elevated apartment complex causing flood problem on Soi Kophai

PATTAYA:--A Pattaya deputy mayor inspected the Soi Kophai Community, trying to determine the source of repeated flooding and assure residents that city hall was on the case.

Verawat Khakhay toured the South Pattaya neighborhood June 17 following numerous complaints about flooding caused by contractors piling up soil, turning some streets into lakes during heavy rain.

Verawat and workers from the Sanitation Engineering Department performed a full inspection, finding that contractors are building an apartment complex and that its foundation was raised higher than surrounding houses.

The contractors created slopes all around the apartment complex so it couldn’t be affected by the rain, but didn’t consider the impact the cascading water would have on neighbors.

Contractors were summoned to a meeting discuss the problem with resident Nirandorn Saithong, whose home was close to the place being built, and the deputy mayor.

- See more at: http://www.pattayamail.com/localnews/elevated-apartment-complex-causing-flood-problem-on-soi-kophai-48555#sthash.kAHirhQo.dpuf

-- Pattaya Mail 2015-07-03

[burgdawg]

...no beginning and no end to this situation. Sometimes called "beggar thy neighbor" in Game Theory.

[phycokiller]

so the neighbors are upset that the new place wont get flooded the same as them?