New Phuket B80m wastewater plant to counter Patong Bay brown water

The water at Patong Beach turned brown again today (May 18). Photo: Courtesy of Phuket News reader 'Jim'

PHUKET: -- Patong Mayor Chalermluck Kebsup is moving ahead with plans to build a new B80 million wastewater-treatment plant in the resort town.

The news was announced yesterday (May 18), when Mayor Chalermluck revealed that Phuket Environmental Committee had admitted that excessive nitrogen in the beach water had caused plankton blooms that have turned Patong Bay beachwater brown several times already this year.

Mayor Chalermluck announced her plans to build the new wastewater plant after meeting with the Phuket Environmental Committee yesterday.

“It is time to make the environment to be better. The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the new plant is already done. We have considered this for a while, it is not just in reaction to the plankton blooms,” Mayor Chalermluck told The Phuket News.

The new plant will be located alongside the Pak Bang Canal, which runs through Patong town, she added.

“The exact location has yet to be set, but it will be somewhere near where the existing wastewater-treatment plant is,” she added.

Mayor Chalermluck noted, “At the meeting, the Phuket Environmental Committee said they had concluded that nitrogen in the water caused the plankton bloom.

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-- Phuket News 2016-05-19

Human waste =ammonia that turns into nitrogen that turns into nitrate which is the feed for algae.im suprised that cholera hasn't broken out.i love the Thai way of fixing this problem.they should be looking for the source of the contamination not just patching it up with a water treatment plant.

Which will end up being a 40 mil Baht waste treatment facility that is either faulty or out of action within a year, 10 mercedes Benz and 3 holiday homes for high ranking officials and 1 mil Baht divied up between the low ranking plebs to sign off on the sub standard work.