Apparently Pattaya’s
Sanitation Office sanitation office knows about this illegal dumping, but is
doing nothing about it.
Vittaya Yoondorn
Residents living on Soi Arunothai are complaining Pattaya City Hall is doing
nothing to stop a steady steam of commercial trucks using their backyards as
a garbage dump.
Cement, wood, construction materials, rotting fruit and other garbage now
run about 10 meters long in a vacant lot about a half kilometer from the LK
Legend condominiums. The stench fills the air, seeping into expensive condos
and residential townhouses. Rats scurry through the brush and garbage
pickers mingle in the area, collecting anything they can find to sell.
Nearby residents says the garbage has been delivered nightly by six-wheeled
commercial trucks for nearly a year but, other than posting “no dumping”
signs, the city has done nothing to stop it.
Pattaya Sanitation Office staffer Sunya Thupthimsri said the city is aware
of the problem and has heard many complaints for residents but refused to
offer any assistance. The city has posted signs, threatening law breakers
with 2,000 baht fines, but he wouldn’t commit to actually doing anything to
enforce them.
