Phuket officials scramble to contain wastewater beach spill

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Phuket officials scramble to contain wastewater beach spill
Tanyaluk Sakoot


Black untreated wastewater spilled across the sand at Kata Beach last Thursday. Photo: Chatpon Jareonwech

PHUKET: -- Public works officials put in a 12-hour shift last Thursday (Nov 5) to quickly repair a wastewater-treatment plant that was allowing black, untreated wastewater to flow onto Kata Beach.

The Public Works Division at Karon Municipality were notified of the black water spilling onto the beach at 2pm, explained engineer Chatpon Jareonwech.

“By 3pm, we were on-site and had shut down the plant to make emergency repairs,” Mr Chatpon told The Phuket News.

Although the pumps were still working, the filtration system was not removing sediment and other contaminants from the water, he explained

“Plus, it had been raining heavily. This added extra load onto filtration system, meaning more untreated water passed through the plant” he added.

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-officials-scramble-to-contain-wastewater-beach-spill-54888.php

-- The Nation 2015-11-10

[arthurboy]

Blame the rain, eh?

Nothing to do with substandard equipment, installation and maintenance, I guess.

Bad monsoon climate country...

[waldroj]

What a load of shit!

[godden]

Should have a ditch or tank like structure around the plant to contain any leakage, but what do i know.

[whatproblem]

Should have a ditch or tank like structure around the plant to contain any leakage, but what do i know.

Looks like you know more than the managers there but their job is about money ,beach ain't there problem

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[Traveling Sailor]

Ah, yes. Always better to "scramble" after the fact than to perform routine maintenance.

[shirtless]

Prevention is sure better and cheaper than the cure when will Thais learn this .