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Leaking since 2010, water pipe finally repaired by Pattaya City Hall
Urasin Khantaraphan
Eight months after the Pattaya Mail first reported it and nearly
five years after it broke, a leaking water pipe on Pratamnak Soi 5 finally
has been fixed.
Sutat Nuspan, water-supply manager for Banglamung District, actually pledged
to fix the cap on a standpipe outside Ruamchok Condo View 2 on Aug. 19, yet
it still took until Nov. 5 for workers to actually show up.
The exceedingly difficult and complex repair job that took since 2010 to
resolve? Workers had to rethread the cap fitting and secure the pipe with
concrete.
The broken pipe first earned Pattaya Mail headlines in March after
Australian expat Roy Albiston, 63, calculated that the standpipe had been
leaking an estimated 1.3 million liters of water a year since a fire damaged
it in 2010. 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 more than two months
ago he had ordered staffers to finish the job. It took them nine weeks to do
so.
The leak was blamed for water shortages by condo residents and Albiston said
he even saw people using the water to clean their cars.
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