The rebuilding of Pattaya Beach is set for completion in May with hopes it will reverse years of critical erosion.
Chonburi Deputy Gov. Chaichan Eimcharoen said at a public briefing on the long-delayed, 430-millon-baht project that work to restore Pattaya Beach to 35 meters wide and add breakwaters to prevent erosion restarted on Sept. 29 and is scheduled for completion by May 20.
At the meeting at the Amari Pattaya, the Marine Department, Ministry of Transportation and Aquatic Resources Research Institute of Chulalongkorn University invited the public to share their opinions of how the work will affect them and how to mitigate the problems.
Work originally began on restocking Pattaya Beach with sand on Dec. 29, 2014, but was halted on May 21 last year due to a shortage of sand.
The project was deemed necessary after Aquatic Resources Research Institute warned in 2011 that Pattaya Beach would disappear within five years if nothing was done to combat erosion.
