Deputy Mayor Verawat Khakhay conducts a survey
along Puek Plub canal in Naklua to improve drainage efficiency in the Naklua
market area.
Jetsada Homklin
Pattaya will take 60 million baht of the money earmarked for
rebuilding Pattaya Beach to solve shoreline flooding problems by installing
up to four new drainage pipes.
At a Nov. 10 meeting, Deputy Mayor Verawat Khakhay confirmed the city will
implement a variation of the suggestions made a week earlier by Thanawat
Jarupongsakul of the Chulalongkorn University Department of Geology, which
has been the consultant to the city on the Pattaya Beach refill project.
Thanawat said a 1.25-kilometer pipe, two meters wide, was needed running
from the sea at Soi 6/1, the current site of four ineffective pumps. A
200-meter-long pipe should be installed at the Dusit Curve to connect with
the existing drainage network, and a 47-meter connecting pipe at Walking
Street, the site of another pump, he said.
Thanawat’s original estimate on installation of the pipes was 190 million
baht.
Khakhay said the original proposal created concern that such long drainage
pipes would contradict the beach-refill project’s environmental impact
report, which has already been approved. Therefore it was decided to shorten
the pipes and install a fourth drainage pipe at Soi 10.
Moreover, the deputy mayor also commissioned a survey along Puek Plub canal
in Naklua, which will be assisted by representatives from the New Naklua
Market and Puek Plub canal communities, to add more channels for draining
water.
