- Published: 20/10/2012 at 05:02 PM
- Writer: Chaiwat Satyaem
The waste, which included plastic bags and water bottles as well as organic matter, was also seen floating in the sea off the popular beach on Saturday.
The incident is a natural phenomenon that occurs every year between October and the beginning of November, when monsoon winds blow southwestward from Chon Buri toward Prachuap Khiri Khan on the opposite side of the Gulf of Thailand.
Local people call it the lom wao, or "kite wind", said Hua Hin Mayor Nopporn Wutthikul.
As a result, the winds sweep a huge amount of waste under the sea at the mouth of the Gulf of Thailand from Chon Buri, Bangkok, Samut Sakhon and Samut Songkhram to the province’s shoreline.
This phenomenon usually lasts about one or two weeks and is well known among local people, he said.
Mr Nopporn said more than 100 municipal officials were busy clearing up the trash along the shoreline, especially at a spot beside the Centara Grand Beach Resort & Villas Hua Hin, where many people like to go swimming.
He also said tourists should be aware that the seawater quality would be poor during this period and they may encounter waste that could be harmful floating in the sea.
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- Discussion 1 : 21/10/2012 at 01:16 AM
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The waste, which included plastic bags and water bottles as well as organic matter, was also seen floating in the sea off the popular beach on Saturday.
The incident is a natural phenomenon that occurs every year between October and the beginning of November, when monsoon winds blow southwestward from Chon Buri toward Prachuap Khiri Khan on the opposite side of the Gulf of Thailand
A natural phenomenon? So people throwing garbage into canals, etc is a natural phenomenon? Only in Thailand 55555
- Discussion 2 : 20/10/2012 at 11:53 PM
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The waste, which included plastic bags and water bottles as well as organic matter....
The incident is a natural phenomenon that occurs every year....
Very natural indeed.
- Discussion 3 : 20/10/2012 at 11:36 PM
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Amazing Thailand. Where the isolated waters of the Gulf are home to the garbage and effluence from Bangkok and numerous industrial parks.
When was the last time the water was tested? (I assure you the results will not be made public).
- Discussion 4 : 20/10/2012 at 11:25 PM
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It must be all them foreigners on all them cruise ships throwing wate into the ocean
from iPhone application.
- Discussion 5 : 20/10/2012 at 09:30 PM
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Maybe we could look into cutting down on the waste we throw in the sea or maybe stopping it all together .
- Discussion 6 : 20/10/2012 at 09:05 PM
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It would be nice to have the ways to clean many other dirty laundries in Thailand...Wind churning, more digging by the media, transparency law. Can't wait for mothernature to do it alone.
- Discussion 7 : 20/10/2012 at 08:54 PM
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Sustainable tourism courtesy of the Tourism Authority of Thailand
- Discussion 8 : 20/10/2012 at 08:26 PM
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Not much chance of a Blue Flag here then.I suspect there in not a water quality standard test here.
No Blue Flag here then.
- Discussion 9 : 20/10/2012 at 08:09 PM
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Hey folks, not to worry, is is only Bangkok Trash that blew off course. Nothing more, nothing less! Gotta love these Thai's that readily just pitch their garbage in the river to get taken downstream to the ocean. I watch it every day in disgust at Wat Sang Siritam in Tha It as well as many other places on the rivers and Klongs that I have traveled extensively.
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