Business leaders call Pattaya officials on carpet over sewage woes

PATTAYA:--Business leaders demanded an explanation for a sewage overflow that contaminated Pattaya Beach in July and what measures Pattaya officials are taking to prevent a reoccurrence.

 

Pattaya Business & Tourism Association Vice President Rattanachai Sutidechanai – a former city councilman – called current council members, city hall department chief and police to the group’s Aug. 22 meeting at the Grand Sole Hotel to discuss sewage management.

 

He said the meeting was called following heavy rain July 11-12 that flooded Pattaya Beach with black, noxious sewage, fouling the beach and polluting the water for a week.

 

Sompop Wandee, water quality manager for the Engineering Department, explained that the main pump for the city’s primary sewage treatment plant had broken down and repairs were hampered by continuing storm runoff.

 

Workers fired up a backup pump, Sompop said, but it was only capable of pumping 5,000 cu. meters an hour, far less than was surging through the pipelines.

 

He said the main pump is now repaired and the Sanitation Department is cleaning out the drainage pipes.

 

By then, however, the damage was done. Water samples taken after the storm showed Pattaya Bay was 70 percent over the threshold for water that is considered safe to swim in.

 

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-- © Copyright Pattaya Mail 2017-09-01

I'd suggest those business leaders have a look at where the sewage from their own hotels, restaurants and malls is discharged.  I suspect a lot of it deliberately bypasses any sewage system.

" Water samples taken after the storm showed Pattaya Bay was 70 percent over the threshold for water that is considered safe to swim in."

 

So I guess the storm had no real effect.

What I don't understand is why the police get involved with these kind of issues, what has it got to do with the police?

1 hour ago, SirBuwanaDogbossKing said:

What I don't understand is why the police get involved with these kind of issues, what has it got to do with the police?

Negligence?

2 hours ago, SirBuwanaDogbossKing said:

What I don't understand is why the police get involved with these kind of issues, what has it got to do with the police?

They are not going to miss any opportunities for payoffs

2 hours ago, SirBuwanaDogbossKing said:

What I don't understand is why the police get involved with these kind of issues, what has it got to do with the police?

No room under the tents, so they have to go somewhere!

The City,s primary sewage treatment plant ? As far as I can see, there is no sewage treatment plant in Pattaya that is even remotely capable of treating the sewage from a city this size, even if it was in working order ! Khun Estrada, I located the plant (not functioning) that you said was the city,s main treatment plant, and it looks more like something a large hotel might have to process the effluent from one hotel. Serious thought has to be put into a real and operational plant that can treat this city,s sewage before the beaches are world famous for the wrong reasons !

3 hours ago, hansnl said:

Negligence?

Negligence would be a civil issue, nothing to do with the police

2 hours ago, YetAnother said:

They are not going to miss any opportunities for payoffs

Payoffs from whom exactly? 

2 hours ago, Moti24 said:

No room under the tents, so they have to go somewhere!

Obviously YetAnother, Moti24 and you are as wise as I am. 

Business leaders really need to play a much more active role with a more united voice than they are now doing in getting the city to tackle infrastructure problems, transportation problems, and things like illegal daily rentals at residential condominiums. 

3 hours ago, newnative said:

Business leaders really need to play a much more active role with a more united voice than they are now doing in getting the city to tackle infrastructure problems, transportation problems, and things like illegal daily rentals at residential condominiums. 

 

The problem being, of course, that solving those problems costs money.  Which most tourist towns around the world raise by taxing....tourists and the businesses that serve them.   Business owners aren't that excited about really solving the problems.  Just griping.

 

 

And when will they buy a new pump if that thing is so hard ro repair??  Just buy a topbrand pump with full maintenance contract for a decade.

12 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

" Water samples taken after the storm showed Pattaya Bay was 70 percent over the threshold for water that is considered safe to swim in."

 

So I guess the storm had no real effect.

Considered safe by whom and by what standard?  I wouldn't touch it

On 9/1/2017 at 11:00 PM, Thian said:

And when will they buy a new pump if that thing is so hard ro repair??  Just buy a topbrand pump with full maintenance contract for a decade.

And there lies the problem,  maintenance contracts never adhered too and I mean never...... 

Why worry the tourist's attracted these days like swimming with turds

Edited September 3, 20178 yr by wakeupplease

7 hours ago, KBsinter said:

And there lies the problem,  maintenance contracts never adhered too and I mean never...... 

I know but it can be fixed easy by maintenance contracts....just like a leasecar....