After the city finally
cleaned up this area, which had been used as a free-for-all garbage dump
for over a year, the owner put up a barbed wire fence to make sure it
doesn’t happen again.
Vittaya Yoondorn
A barbed wire fence has been placed around a stretch
of Soi Arunothai previously used as a makeshift garbage dump that
attracted the attention of residents, the city and local media.
The unidentified land owner of the parcel, which was
cleaned up by the Pattaya Public Health and Environment May 15, strung
about 50 meters of barbed wire around the plot after trash trucks
departed.
Local residents thanked the land owner and city
officials for ridding the neighborhood of the eyesore.
Cement, wood, construction materials, rotting fruit
and other garbage had been dumped nightly by six-wheeled commercial
trucks for nearly a year but, other than posting “no dumping” signs, the
city nothing to stop it until the Pattaya Mail highlighted the
issue earlier this month.