From Pattaya Mail

 

 

The on-again, mostly-off-again effort to stop erosion from wiping Pattaya Beach off the map is off again after Chulalongkorn University consultants, for the third time, bungled the job of finding the right sand.

 

Restarted earlier this month after a 15-month suspension, the sand-refill project at the far northern end of Pattaya Beach was halted March 20 when the Marine Department decreed that the sand brought in from Koh Rang, a small island south of Koh Chang, doesn’t match Pattaya’s beachfront well enough.

 

Marine Director Eakaraj Kantaro said no more of the Trat Province sand will be brought to Pattaya and the entire project will be sent back, once again, to consultants at Chulalongkorn University who twice before recommended the wrong sand.

Previous contractor Kijakarn Ruamka Marine Construction Co. restarted work on the 483-million-baht project – which has ballooned far over that first estimate due to the many stops, starts and new-contractor contracts – in October 2016 following a 13-month hiatus.

 

The work stopped on Dec. that year after beach users complained about the sand laid near the Dusit Thani Hotel.

 

http://www.pattayamail.com/news/pattaya-halts-beach-restoration-205822

OMG..Talking about reclaiming a beach..Learn from Singapore ....We have so many man made beaches..And bitches...

Sadly it doesn't matter what kind of sand they use, because unless they make much, much more effort in keeping down the daily litter and flotsam it will soon be just as unappealing as the rest of it. 

Before pouring money into the sea, there is a need to divert the water flow...They need to build a bundle to stem out water...They must ...The list goes on..

 

How about improving the sewerage system first....

Sadly it doesn't matter what kind of sand they use, because unless they make much, much more effort in keeping down the daily litter and flotsam it will soon be just as unappealing as the rest of it. 

you got it right, one morning last September I walked along the beach and was positively disgusted by piles of rubbish covering sand. Even more shocking  , there were people sunbathing already among all that rubbish.

 

I guess those consultants did not take into account that water in Pattaya bay is too wet.

Jomtien beach always seems quite clean.  The water is a different matter.

 

As for the sand, well, maybe they need to recognize that imported sand is unlikely to be a perfect match.   As long as they have proper imported sand, not some coarse pebbles, it has to be better than almost no sand.

The most recent results of the study at Chuckalonghorn University indicate that the best sand would be Desert Sand.

 

Rounded quartz grains (covered with rust-colored hematitic pigment) plus biogenic and lithic fragments from the Dubai Desert, United Arab Emirates. Biogenic grains clearly indicate that the sea can’t be very far away.

As improbable as this sounds,  the UAE has a huge surplus of this type of sand which can be shipped anywhere in the world even at a cost comparable to domestic  sand. Due to it's superfluidity characteristics Desert Sand can be pumped from its source, when mixed with water, and deposited into a ship and later pumped onto a beach.  The question remains if this recommendation will be implemented.

 

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