City workers use a
backhoe to clear hyacinth out of the Nang Yang canal in Naklua.
Surasak Huasoon
City workers cleared natural and made-made obstructions from
Naklua’s Nok Yang Canal, helping mitigate flooding during rainy season.
A team comprised of workers from the city Sanitation, Engineering,
Drainage System and Water Quality departments arrived at the Sukhumvit
Soi 21 canal July 17 with a backhoe to scrape out the hyacinth that had
overgrown the waterway and had become fully blocked by garbage.
The canal is one of Pattaya’s many natural waterways to catch storm
runoff and carry it to the sea.
Staffers worked three days on the canal, clearing two kilometers of
waterway from Soi A-lao Sian to the Toyota center. In some cases,
workers jumped into the waterway themselves to clear areas the backhoe
couldn’t reach.
Not all the canal was cleared, as the soi narrowed too much to allow the
large trucks to enter, but officials said the work should be completed
in a couple weeks.
