Black wastewater on Phuket beach can wait, says Vice Governor
Tanyaluk Sakoot

PHUKET: -- The growing pool of black wastewater at Surin Beach can wait until the demolition of beachfront businesses have been carried out, Phuket Vice Governor Chokdee Armornwat has told The Phuket News.

The pool of wastewater, exposed through a Phuket News cover story in January (see here) has become even more concentrated during the heat wave and lack of rain in recent months.

Notices have been issued to owners to vacate the buildings along the Surin beachfront, V/Gov Chokdee confirmed.

“The demolitions will begin on April 20,” he said from the city of Boao, in China, where is attending the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2016, which will conclude on Friday (Mar 25).

“Once these building have been demolished, this wastewater will not be an issue,” he added.

The demolitions have been a long time coming, with officials bestowing reprieve after reprieve while they sorted out formalities to ensure any action would be legal. (See story here.)

However, V/Gov Chokdee this week declined to identify which buildings will be demolished.

“All the illegal buildings along the beachfront will have to go,” is all he would say on the matter.

Full Story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/black-wastewater-on-phuket-beach-can-wait-says-vice-governor-56732.php

-- Phuket News 2016-03-23

Good gravy. You have got to be kidding. I just Choked on my Dee

Double talk and more double talk. Man speak with forked tongue.

The pool of wastewater, exposed through a Phuket News cover story

Yea right. You did some real good undercover detective work there to expose this totally hidden, non-obvious and little thing somewhere near the beach.

Well, actually it's a huge, totally obvious, smelly thing right in the middle of the beach that noone can miss.

Phuket motto - Why do today that can just as easily be put of until tomorrow. Why do tomorrow that can be done next week.

Got to love all these boondoggle trips these governors and vice governors take. Boao forum for Asia, now that's something important that needs his attention. I wonder how the karaoke in Boao China compares?

Yes Phukett beaches right up there with the best in the world or so i have been told.

....better wait until it becomes completely impossible to trace the source.....

This stinking black morass did not exist until the "water works" ( that do not WORK) up near the main road 200 meters away , were 'completed' a few months back.

Now some town waste water is being redirected to the beach - and blind Freddy can walk along and trace it to its source , and that source is not the little shops along the beach Soi that do no harm.

It is up near the mains and road.

There is some other agenda going on here.

Get the water treatment facility ( that cost some ridiculous hundreds of millions of baht !) working NOW.

Idiots ...

Same story every year whether it be Surin, Bangtao khlong, Karon,Kata, no action will be taken as "what is the point" when rain will soon be coming to wash it all away?

Please bring on the rain.........

“Once these building have been demolished, this wastewater will not be an issue,”

Black wastewater understands and will wait for further action.