Thread: Beach Road gets another flooding ‘solution’

With Pattaya’s 170-million-baht installation of three new drainage pipelines having proved a failure at solving Beach Road flooding problems, the city has decided to construct three new culverts to let the storm runoff drain faster – and untreated – into the ocean.
New drainage outlets are being created by cutting through the footpath near Soi 9, Central Festival, and Soi 10 Pattaya Beach Road.

Work on three new concrete-sided tunnels began June 6 near the intersections of sois 9 and 10, and in front of Central Festival Pattaya Beach. The plan is to have water pouring onto Beach Road from higher elevations wash into the culverts, under the beachfront footpath, through the sand and into sea.

The water, polluted by sewage backups and garbage from higher elevations, will enter the sea without being funneled through the city’s water-treatment plant.

Phuthiset Charoenpoj, maintenance chief for the Engineering Department, led a team of workers to start the excavation for the culverts at the beachfront mall June 6. They will be five meters long and six-meters wide and lined with cement. The footpath will be dug up and then resurfaced with reinforced concrete to allow water to pass underneath.

In the past year, Pattaya spent 170 million baht to install three huge drainage pipes at the Dusit Curve, Soi 6, and near Walking Street. But even short rainstorms since their completion have shown the pricey pipes are unable to solve Beach Road’s chronic flooding problem.

Work was expected to finish within a few days.

Beach Road gets another flooding ?solution? - Pattaya Mail

Employ me and a few other qualified ferangs at a decent western wage
And we will sort it
Water management and flood defence is not rocket science
Hydro breaks,culverts,holding tanks,diaphragm walls,pen stocks and a decent drainage system would be a start

Originally Posted by jimbobs

Employ me and a few other qualified ferangs at a decent western wage

The last thing Thais will do is look to farang to solve their problems.

why solve when you can get paid again and again and again and again.....

YEP, Thais refuse to fix the problems first time as there is no repeat extortion of tax payers money.

In fact if you look at the 36 highway at least 2 generations of Thais have lived upon the sub standard repairs and on going repair business that comes from being ignorant idiots.

Me, you and no other person can control what spastics with power want to do.

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

They will be five meters long and six-meters wide and lined with cement.

sounds like it will fit a big wardrobe and a few full size lounge chairs