Pattaya will pump out long-standing putrid water from the Soi Arunothai area even through the street is privately owned.
City council members Sanit Boonmachai, Nakhon Phonlookin, Nattaya Sutthithamrongsawat and Visalya Phettrakul inspected the soi in Charoensuk Village Feb. 4, discovering a 50-meter-long basin of smelly flood runoff that has become polluted.
Residents said the water has been there about a year. Some had laid bricks and planks across it so people could cross it.
Sanit said the city normally would pump out standing water, but because the road is privately owned, the city was not obligated to do anything. Residents have petitioned to make the street public, but there have been hang-ups with the transfer paperwork.
Nonetheless, to solve the immediate problem, the city will send a truck out to pump the water as it works towards a more-permanent solution.
City officials have promised to send a send a truck out to pump this polluted water out of a Soi Arunothai neighborhood.
