After the rosy stories comes the reality - new Pattaya beach being washed away

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After the rosy stories comes the reality - new Pattaya beach being washed away

 

Picture: Sophon Cable

 

Following a raft of positive stories about the renovation of part of a 2.7 kilometer stretch of the beach at Pattaya, comes the reality.

 

Sophon Cable reported that the 400 million baht of sand is already being washed into the sea.

 

Some 400 meters has been completed of the project and last week the Thai media hailed the success of the venture hailing it as a boon for tourists and vendors. It has widened the beach by 35 meters..

 

Picture: Sophon Cable

 

But now Sophon are reporting that it will all be a waste of time if flooding issues in Pattaya are not properly addressed.

 

They showed pictures of sand being washed away and questioned the resort's priorities.

 

They ridiculed the idea that it would last 10 years as the current monsoon season is already doing it hardest to spoil the new beach.

 

Source: Sophon Cable

 

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[taichiplanet]

wow, didn't see that coming! ?

[TPI]

Gosh! Who could've picked that?

[Wiggy]

You plonker, Somchai.

[Xaos]

Poland Baltic sea this weekend

[lovelomsak]

4 minutes ago, Xaos said:

Poland Baltic sea this weekend

Definitely would not go to that beach I hate beachs with crowds.

[Henrik Andersen]

Thai can't make anything 

Everyone knows that 

Everyone knew this would happen we farangs have said that from beginning 

It is same story over and over again 

[Just1Voice]

Another nonsensical Quick Thai Fix up in smoke.  Or rather, washed out to sea.

Som Nom Na! 

 

[lovelomsak]

So what's next?  I think there is no answer for Pattaya. It will just fade away and become an old    resort city. that lost its attraction.

[sammieuk1]

No butts binding it together leading to hyper fast erosion into the turd laden sea bring the smokers back?

[Destiny1990]

So now who’s responsible this failure?

[thaichiro]

6 minutes ago, sammieuk1 said:

No butts binding it together leading to hyper fast erosion into the turd laden sea bring the smokers back?

Oh, THOSE butts....

[NanLaew]

2 minutes ago, Destiny1990 said:

So now who’s responsible this failure?

They'll blame it on the sand being the wrong type (again) rather than blame the same team of 'experts' who've been paid well these past 3-5 years to select the wrong type of (different) sand before.

[tifino]

 

this probably was a follow up, cause and effect, from them doing a fact finding jaunt overseas, to how it is done!

 

and, as bad luck would have had it - they probably chose Surfers Paradise to copy from...

 

 

 

 

and they have literally copied it exactly!

[NCC1701A]

"My god your new house is huge!"

"Yes my husband sells sand to the city of Pattaya."

 

[Vacuum]

"Big Joke" should investigate this.

[Chassa]

29 minutes ago, lovelomsak said:

So what's next?  I think there is no answer for Pattaya. It will just fade away and become an old    resort city. that lost its attraction.

Good, maybe I'll go back again.

[tifino]

2 minutes ago, Vacuum said:

"Big Joke" should investigate this.

 

nah! he'll just fill his boots with cockerells, crabs and mussels

[NanLaew]

AFAIK, there's never, ever been 35 m of sand at the extreme north end of Pattaya Bay just south of the headland where the Dusit was built. The natural longshore drift in conjunction with that headland just doesn't allow it. The only way they will get sand to stick is build groynes.

[Chassa]

11 minutes ago, Destiny1990 said:

So now who’s responsible this failure?

Mother Nature - same as the floods. The best in the world cannot.

[trainman34014]

With any luck the whole place will wash away; the very best way to solve all the problems surrounding that dump !

[lust]

400 million baht of sand...

[NanLaew]

2 minutes ago, trainman34014 said:

With any luck the whole place will wash away; the very best way to solve all the problems surrounding that dump !

Ah... just a hint of Chiang Mai petulance there... marvelously irrelevant, eh?

[NCC1701A]

MY GOD. I hope Soi Six is going to be ok.

[chickenslegs]

 

I found Wally (Waldo).

[NoMeAmes]

32 minutes ago, Destiny1990 said:

So now who’s responsible this failure?

well... the ocean, of course! Those waves....

[NE1]

If the Chinese tourists don't need it , then nobody will worry to much.

 

[Snow Leopard]

Just looking at that picture and i am no expert but this looks like it has washed from the shore side to offshore. Not the other way round. 

 

Either way both are relatively easy to fix. 

 

Put proper drainage channels for the rain water to run off and into the sea.

 

Dump some rocks a few 100 m out and create and artificial reef to stop wave erosion. 

 

And of course stop dumping turds in the sea. Goes without saying.

[Emster23]

Simple to fix. Simply hire a Thai action hero version of King Canute to command the tides to stop. Problem solved, or at least til next tide.

[LennyW]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

the current monsoon season is already doing it hardest to spoil the new beach.

And it has only just begun......be no beach left by end of October!