webfact Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 Pattaya in crisis: 400 million baht beach washed into the sea The Pattaya Harbor Department has admitted that their best laid plans to improve the beach have gone completely pear shaped. Following a storm a huge swathe of the 400 million baht new sand project has just been washed away. It was only recently finished as was trumpeted as a lovely beach. Ekkarat Khantharo said it was a crisis and he was extremely worried about the situation. The Pattaya News said that up to 200 meters of the beach in a dozen locations had been swept out to sea. Ekkarat was involved in damage limitation exercises and excuses - it would take a week and backhoes and heavy equipment would be use to dredge the sand from the sea and plop it back on the beach, he said. He told the media that mother nature was to blame and the Harbor Department always accepted that something like this could happen. Now they plan to spend another 105 million baht over the next year. This time it will go on improving the drainage so that the sand might actually stay in place. Earlier in the week a TNAMCOT video praised the massive project to solve sand erosion on a 2.8 kilometer stretch from North to South Pattaya. It was finally completed just last month. The only problem on the beautiful sands was a lack of tourists. Now the sand has been washed away in the storms and Pattaya's landmark project is in tatters. Not only are there few tourists - but there is much less sand for them to sit on. Source: The Pattaya News -- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2019-04-04 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just1Voice Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 This is just too funny!! ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustAnotherHun Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 The rest of their beautiful beach will be washed away by the waves of the next cold season. Never mind, Chinese don't stay at beautiful beaches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC1701A Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 "My god! Your house is huge and so beautiful!" "Yes my husband sells sand to the city of Pattaya." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksidedog Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 When the whole project was first announced, with it the news the sand would come from some way away, one of the best posts I saw was a suggestion to just take sand from Jomtien and when it washed away from Pattaya, it would end up back in Jomtien and the cycle could begin again, giving eternal profit to the southern beach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThreeEyedRaven Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 13 minutes ago, webfact said: it would take a week and backhoes and heavy equipment would be use to dredge the sand from the sea and plop it back on the beach, he said. And one more good downpour to wash it all back out to sea again. Permanent work for the dredgers it would seem then throughout the rainy season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC1701A Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 "The most distant human-made object is the spacecraft Voyager 1, which – in late February 2018 – is over 13 billion miles (21 billion km) from Earth. Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, were launched 16 days apart in 1977. Both spacecraft flew by Jupiter and Saturn. Voyager 2 also flew by Uranus and Neptune. Now both Voyagers are heading out of our solar system, into the space between the stars. Voyager 1 officially became the first earthly craft to leave the solar system, crossing the heliopause, in 2012." https://earthsky.org/space/what-is-the-most-distant-man-made-object-from-earth Thailand 2019. Which way water flow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwan Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 He told the media that mother nature was to blame ..... and Mother Nature is a Farang ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 2 minutes ago, darksidedog said: just take sand from Jomtien Sand from Jomtien was the wrong colour ????.... Anyway in the video the official said of course they foresaw this problem and had been worrying about it, but now have 105 million baht to spend on drainage measures around Pattaya with most focus on beach road...but works would not be completed by this rainy season.... So I suppose that means they'll be digging up the promenade again and to expect even worse scenes when the "proper" rains hit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KennethSmiles Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 I can't stop laughing ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterbilt Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 17 minutes ago, JustAnotherHun said: The rest of their beautiful beach will be washed away by the waves of the next cold season. Never mind, Chinese don't stay at beautiful beaches. The now shorter beach is a big advantage for the Chinese, since they dont have to hike that incredible long way from their bus parking in 3rd row on Beach Rd to the boat which takes them to Koh Lan. This also means that those premium quality tourists from China aren't exposed to the sun for such a long time...... ???? 8 minutes ago, NCC1701A said: Thailand 2019. Which way water flow? Sir! Water flows the way it has been ordered to flow by the military, Sir! ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justgrazing Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 30 minutes ago, webfact said: He told the media that mother nature was to blame National characteristic of casting around for something to blame again .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brokenbone Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 i have no malice or gleeful comments, they tried and it didnt work out, pity. but sand alone does not cut it anyway, the wastewater without filter also prevent it from ever becoming a wonderful beach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaibeachlovers Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 15 minutes ago, johng said: Sand from Jomtien was the wrong colour ????.... Anyway in the video the official said of course they foresaw this problem and had been worrying about it, but now have 105 million baht to spend on drainage measures around Pattaya with most focus on beach road...but works would not be completed by this rainy season.... So I suppose that means they'll be digging up the promenade again and to expect even worse scenes when the "proper" rains hit. Strangely, back in the 90s when they put really big pipes under Beach Rd the flooding wasn't as bad, but I'm assuming when they widened the road they forgot to connect the drains to the big pipes, or they got blocked with debris, or perhaps they just never cleaned the sand out of them, and 20 years of sand blocked the pipes. The time to sort the drains was when they widened the roads, but that would have been sensible, and we know Pattaya council don't do sensible. I'd love to be a fly on the council walls as they all try to find someone to blame. I'm guessing, but even the locals probably won't believe that it's all nature's fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruit Trader Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 Meanwhile, back on planet Earth... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaibeachlovers Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 They may have wanted to try the Bkk solution, but found that the local speedboats couldn't be moved to the flooded roads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 Brings to mind that old terrace chant from youth "You don't know what you're doing, You don't know what you're doing, You don't know what you're doing, You don't know what you're doing," Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelseafan Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 Here's a radical idea - How about spending the 400m baht to actually improve the drainage and sewer systems before wasting money on building beaches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 3 minutes ago, Fruit Trader said: Ahh--ha the perfect site to dump rubbish and crash vehicles into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitman Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 5555 even my 5 year old nephew could have told them that sandbags don't last long in the open sea..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwan Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 7 minutes ago, Chelseafan said: Here's a radical idea - How about spending the 400m baht to actually improve the drainage and sewer systems before wasting money on building beaches. Quite ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 1 minute ago, Chelseafan said: Here's a radical idea Blasphemy !!!... ???? I wonder how much was spent on modelling of the bay to see what effect tearing down the old pier, building the new "marina" removing the old tress , road widening, massive amounts of new hotels and shopping malls/concrete has had on beach erosion and flooding ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunBENQ Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 In China such a brainless waste of public money would be good for the firing squad or the gallows. Whoever experienced such a rainstorm at the beach knows what's gone to happen. I have seen that more than once. Jomtien beach devastated too. The flow coming down right of Central shopping at beach rd. (VT6) is strong enough to throw you off your feet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captnhoy Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 Please, someone here on TV plug in the details about the time this happened before. Was it 5 or 6 years ago? First, they made a beach. Then it washed away. I wonder if all the budget gets spent on "beach"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitman Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 13 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said: In China such a brainless waste of public money would be good for the firing squad or the gallows. Whoever experienced such a rainstorm at the beach knows what's gone to happen. I have seen that more than once. Jomtien beach devastated too. The flow coming down right of Central shopping at beach rd. (VT6) is strong enough to throw you off your feet. In Thailand you gain status with such a masterplan to get rich....now they get another 200 million baht to repair the damage! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanlic Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 With all the building going on it's not surprising a beach or 2 should disappear :0) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katipo Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 It's just one tale of incompetence after another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LennyW Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 Another 105 million........snouts back in the trough guys!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnykak Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 im in pattaya now- it rained for like an hour or so yesterday and some rain the day before. i wonder what they think is going to happen when its rainy season? lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toenail Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 Any of us who have chosen Pattaya as our home could have predicted this. After living in the city, everyone knows about the cement sois funneling volumes & volumes of rain water down to Beach Rd; thus, creating enormous erosion on the beach. This does not take a rocket scientist to figure out ; yet, the so called Thai “engineer” & university professor couldn’t figure this out ahead of time and be “pro-active” ? Next time have some farangs be consultants for your grandiose projects since locals cannot think of the “what-ifs” or take criticism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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