The government has approved Pattaya’s 665-million-baht proposal to construct a new flood-drainage system in East Pattaya to prevent water flowing down from higher elevations from reaching downtown.
Deputy Mayor Apichart Virapal chaired Dec. 1 meeting to review the budget request approved under the government’s Eastern Economic Corridor project. No timeline for the actual start of construction was disclosed.
Apichart noted that 60 percent of the water that regularly inundates Pattaya comes from the east, flows down over the railway parallel road and into East Pattaya, eventually reaching Sukhumvit Road and downtown.
The proposed drainage system calls for a new collection basin and a network of large drainage pipes to take the collected water to two area canals, which dump into the sea.
The deputy mayor said 665 million baht was approved for the current fiscal year, which runs through Sept. 30, and another 145 million baht for fiscal 2018-19 to purchase pumps and other equipment to supplement the system.
