The pumps are in, but the pipes are only 40 percent done, so Jomtien Beach residents will have to wait until at least until at least the end of the year for flooding on Thepprasit Road side streets to be fixed.
Pattaya Deputy Mayor Pattana Boonsawad said Aug. 24 that the laying of new storm-drainage pipes connecting Thepprasit Soi 7 and Soi 9 is only 40 percent complete and that that funding for another pipe to link the Jomtien Beach sewage treatment plant won’t be available until next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.
LB Engineering Co. began work in March on laying two eight-meter-wide pipes a total of 1.05 kilometers long and rebuilding 1.6 kilometers of roadway. Pattaya did not disclose when the project will be complete, but, at the current pace and budget holdups, it will be at least another four months.
The entire Thepprasit sois-7-9 area has had to endure tremendous inconvenience as the entire area’s underground pipe system has been ripped out and replaced.
An old watershed area, the 7-9 strip floods perpetually, due in large part to ancient and tiny storm-drainage pipes that connect at Soi 7 to a much larger pipe carrying water from Sukhumvit Road to Soi Wat Boonkanjanaram.
The new pipes will match Soi Wat Boonkanjanaram’s pipeline in size, preventing the bottleneck that pushes runoff out of sewers into the streets.
The other development that should end flooding in the area is the construction of a new pump station opposite the Pattaya Youth Sports Center Four new pumps there will shuttle any water that does pool out of the area.
The pump station was completed in August and the pumps are ready to turn on. But the rest of the system is months away from being used.
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