South Pattaya sewage leak causes outrage

PATTAYA:--Citizens, residents and tourists alike took to social media to post images of black sand and inky, smelly water on Pattaya Beach near the old pier site before Walking Street. A check of the beach July 13 found the situation as bad as described.

 

Officials said it would take about a week to clean Pattaya Beach of raw sewage that backed up and flowed into the sand and sea.

 

Chaow Nokyoo, water-quality manager for Pattaya’s Pollution Control Department, and Wirat Jirasripaitoon, director of the Sanitation Department, inspected the scene July 15 and ordered heavy machinery to dig up the contaminated sand.

 

Water samples also were taken for testing to determine if it was indeed raw sewage, but results were not expected for two weeks.

 

Social media users had no doubts on the origin of the contamination, however, saying sewage backed up and overflowed into storm-drainage tunnels following a recent heavy storm.

 

A local speedboat operator said the situation was nothing new and has seen sewage spills many times over the years.

A storm drainage pipe near the site has seen multiple repairs to traps and doors that prevent sewage outflows. It’s possible it is broken again.

 

Sanitation workers at the scene estimated that 40 percent of the city’s raw sewage was flushed untreated into the ocean during the recent flooding.

 

City hall has ordered a cleanup operation, but it will take about a week to complete.

 

Read more: http://www.pattayamail.com/news/south-pattaya-sewage-leak-causes-outrage-181185

 

-- © Copyright Pattaya Mail 2017-07-21

17 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

..., water-quality manager for Pattaya’s Pollution Control Department, ...

That's one position that he probably shouldn't mention in his cv.

 

18 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

Water samples also were taken for testing to determine if it was indeed raw sewage, but results were not expected for two weeks.

Huh! It's not a bloody DNA test you know!

 

18 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

Social media users had no doubts on the origin of the contamination, however, saying sewage backed up and overflowed into storm-drainage tunnels following a recent heavy storm.

Twas ever thus.

23 hours ago, Rimmer said:

Social media users had no doubts on the origin of the contamination,

It's coming from the police station.

2 hours ago, mikebell said:

It's coming from the police station.

 

Thats a similar effluent for which there is no know treatment. In Thailand anyway.

Edited July 22, 20178 yr by Reigntax

happens everytime it floods, only just getting reported

Russians are swimming 50 meters away from the sewage , they seem to enjoy it.

hoho not in thailand it runs uphill