Pattaya's sewage treatment plants just can't cope, meeting told

 

 

A crisis meeting held on Thursday was told by a water treatment expert that Pattaya's seawater contamination is getting worse and worse.

 

And the sewage treatment plants can't cope with the extra capacity over what they were built for.

 

Water specialist Somphop Wandee painted a grim picture of the problem that has been highlighted in recent weeks by Sophon Cable and other media oulets.

 

He told the high level meeting at the Grand Soleil Hotel that contamination in the sea had worsened three times in recent years.

 

Plants built to handle 65,000 cubic liters of waste water per day were not able to cope with the 80,000 liters now experienced at the resort.

 

In addition businesses were letting rubbish and contamination flow directly into the sea exacerbating the problem.

 

Somphop spoke about the BOD tests on Pattaya water. 

 

Biochemical oxygen demand is the amount of dissolved oxygen needed by aerobic biological organisms to break down organic material present in a given water sample at certain temperature over a specific time period.

 

This test showed a steady decline in water quality in the sea in Pattaya. In laymen's terms the sea cannot clean itself due to the rubbish flowing into it.

 

The meeting was attended by the local authority, navy, business and tourism leaders from across the Pattaya spectrum.

 

But Facebook commentator Khunnatham Dangkhunnatham summed it up neatly: "Told simply - the corpse is in the process of rotting and being bloated".

 

Source: https://www.facebook.com/STVPattaya/posts/1626478204039774

 

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This is simply telling us something that we knew already. The water is seriously shitty and getting worse. Here's an idea, rather than uselessly raiding bars for the sake of being seen to do something, invest in the water treatment that is actually needed for a city this size. Because tourists are the lifeline of the place, and they wont be seen here if there is a constant supply of floating turds in the water at the beach.

So, the stretch of brown water seen on Google Earth shall stretch from the mouth of the Chaophraya river to Jomtien...

How many millions did they just waste ( no pun intended ) on an underpass ?

The epitome of incompetence..

Well if they want to make Pattaya a family friendly resort,first thing to do is b sure the water is good enough for swimming, once word gets out about Pattaya water quality,bye bye Pattaya,in this world of social media,word spreads like wildfire.

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

Pattaya's sewage treatment plants just can't cope, meeting told

Is this going to last longtime, or is it just a short-time phenomenon?

How utterly embarrassing for Pattaya when in November there will be Navy chiefs from 19 countries in town and ships from 15 Navy's

 

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what it means is that the budget that was spent on .............well pretty much anything over the last 20 years ....got spent without any actual results

 

go take a look on the far side of Bali just as you come down from the scenic hill, you will see dumped as a pile of construction rubbish the so called marina components, I actually think it is time people (just like Yingluc) were held to account and prosecuted for this very obvious debacle that cost tax payers money..........

 

time for Thailand to become accountable and people both locally and nationally to be held responsible for some very obvious massive failures, only then will people actually make a responsible effort to do something

 

Go look at Siam Country Club.....the Marina (lol) both fine examples of projects that had focus on pockets rather than the contracted job being completed

 

 

accounts accounts accounts .......................look at were the money went. it cannot be hidden - someone just needs to look  

Wait untill the millions of Indian visitors arrive, than we have even more sewagewater to clean.

 

This is just a disadvantage from the more tourists is better plan...better have less tourists who spend more..

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Plants built to handle 65,000 cubic liters of waste water per day were not able to cope with the 80,000 liters now experienced at the resort.

Plus some of the liters didn't arrive as cubes but insisted on taking other shapes.

34 minutes ago, Thian said:

Wait untill the millions of Indian visitors arrive, than we have even more sewagewater to clean.

 

This is just a disadvantage from the more tourists is better plan...better have less tourists who spend more..

Yep but those guys have been, seen and left never to return and all you have now is sort of locals look after them if I was you, if they stop coming the place has had it as far as quality is concerned

This is hardly a new issue so unsure why they have finally admitted the sewerage treatment in Pattaya is overloaded.  I think it is the succession of greedy and nepotistic Mayors together with their administrative organisations that have a difficulty in coping - with anything other then ensuring the Pattaya skimming machine is working at full capacity !

 

 

2 hours ago, Thian said:

Wait untill the millions of Indian visitors arrive, than we have even more sewagewater to clean.

 

This is just a disadvantage from the more tourists is better plan...better have less tourists who spend more..

But the more ( obliveous) tourists is really all that TAT has left. All others except those for the girls are not going to put up with this mass incompetense everywhere you look.

 

12 hours ago, Dobredin Ghusputin said:

Is this going to last longtime, or is it just a short-time phenomenon?

 

More to the point, why wasn't it identified 5 years ago that the system will soon reach it's capacity and something already done to massively increase the system capacity before it can become as issue.

 

Again. Gross lack of planning, and some heads should role. 

 

There are plenty of very capable people in this country but 99% of them will never get to positions of valuable analysis, anticipation of future needs, policy development, innovations etc., because they can't afford the promotion 'fees'.

 

Edited August 18, 20178 yr by scorecard

5 hours ago, smedly said:

what it means is that the budget that was spent on .............well pretty much anything over the last 20 years ....got spent without any actual results

 

go take a look on the far side of Bali just as you come down from the scenic hill, you will see dumped as a pile of construction rubbish the so called marina components, I actually think it is time people (just like Yingluc) were held to account and prosecuted for this very obvious debacle that cost tax payers money..........

 

time for Thailand to become accountable and people both locally and nationally to be held responsible for some very obvious massive failures, only then will people actually make a responsible effort to do something

 

Go look at Siam Country Club.....the Marina (lol) both fine examples of projects that had focus on pockets rather than the contracted job being completed

 

 

accounts accounts accounts .......................look at were the money went. it cannot be hidden - someone just needs to look  

 

Well said, hit's the nail right on the head.

Come to Pattaya on the Dead Sea:

Experience a fetid ocean breeze, while your kids build sludge castles on our beach. Receive an instant tan from a short dip in our caustic waters which will make you the envy at home. Mouthwatering fresh catch of the day is being washed on shore while the supplies last. The Queen of the Eastern Seaboard will provide you with everlasting memories of skin rashes, diarrhea, vomit and infectious disease, courtesy of our hard working authorities. Enjoy

Unexpected ? Building more and more hotels brings more and more waste, same thing with the traffic.

But thinking and planning requires some brain, valid not only for Pattaya.

5 hours ago, smedly said:

time for Thailand to become accountable and people both locally and nationally to be held responsible for some very obvious massive failures, only then will people actually make a responsible effort to do something

while i agree with you, i do not believe that generation of thais , who are now decision-makers, were ever trained to assume responsibility

So what is the solution? Build a new 4 stage plant that transmits the effluent miles out to sea or tell Pattayans not to poop.

Walking along Beach Road yesterday evening there was a very nasty smell coming from somewhere and a lot of evil-looking scum at the shoreline (and I'm not talking about the jet-ski operators).

One can hardly claim to be a world class destination when your beach is little more than a salty sewerage swamp with waves.

14 hours ago, Oztruckie said:

Well if they want to make Pattaya a family friendly resort,first thing to do is b sure the water is good enough for swimming, once word gets out about Pattaya water quality,bye bye Pattaya,in this world of social media,word spreads like wildfire.

Spot on.

Instead it is in the brain that all they must do is hide the sex, drink and rock n roll and families will flood to the resort to let their kids swim in the shitty sea.

 

Just exactly where is this ephemeral sewage treatment plant ? I used to design them, large ones in towns and cities, and scanning over Pattaya and surrounding areas on Google Earth I have never seen anything vaguely resembling a proper sewage treatment plant !

No problem, just dump it into the sea as they have been doing all along. there is a reason why the city never releases any news on the water quality at the beaches. 

I think only the old times know that there are several sewer lines that run a kilometer into the sea off the pattaya and jonptien beaches.

Let's simply call it Turds And Trash 

9 minutes ago, Lupatria said:

Let's simply call it Turds And Trash 

*Pattaya - Eastern Queen of Turds & Trash.

15 hours ago, kotsak said:

The epitome of incompetence..

Dont you mean "The epitome of incontinence"?

 

I see the solution. Its the tourists fault. Hand out waste bags and let them take it home.

16 hours ago, Pdaz said:

How many millions did they just waste ( no pun intended ) on an underpass ?

 

 

Not to mention the so-called 'beautification' project of Dongtan Beach in Jomtien (65 MB), which would be more aptly renamed the concretefication project. When some people actually come to believe that cutting down century-old trees and replacing sand with concrete is an improvement of any kind, it shows that they've totally lost their screws.

 

SHAME ON YOU local 'authorities'.

 

 

 

Edited August 18, 20178 yr by Yann55