Sutat Nuspan, water-supply manager for
Banglamung District, said he has sent out workers to fix the broken water
pipe outside Ruamchok Condo View 2.
Surasak Huasoon
Six months after the Pattaya Mail last reported it and four years
after it broke, a leaking water pipe on Pratamnak Soi 5 finally has gotten
city hall’s attention.
Sutat Nuspan, water-supply manager for Banglamung District, said he ordered
workers to replace the cap on a standpipe outside Ruamchok Condo View 2 that
has been leaking an estimated 1.3 million liters of water a year since a
fire damaged it in 2010.
The Pattaya Mail reported the issue, complete with photos, in March after
Australian expat Roy Albiston, 63, calculated how much water was being lost.
He said he’d contacted city hall several times but nothing was done until a
Pattaya Mail reporter brought Sutat photos to see himself.
Sutat actually blamed city workers for breaking the pipe and acknowledged
they never fixed the cap, which was quite old. He said he has ordered
staffers to finish the job.
The leak was blamed for water shortages by condo residents and Albiston said
he even saw people using the water to clean their cars.
