Been swimming through some ugly brownish foam these days along Hua Hin's beach - not that I would have seen a water treatment plant: Is there any? Isn't there a single one?
My wild guess is open pipelines get rid of some stuff not to far away from the beach.
Waste Water Treatment Plants in Paradise City?
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HansMartin
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Sure there is. Go to the fishing pier. Just north of it is a concrete canal that discharges black gunk to the ocean. Follow this back into town and you will find the wastewater treatment plant. As a sanitary engineer, I'm probably the only one that puts this on my list of tourist attractions.
I went there several years ago. It was antiquated and hydraulically overloaded at the time, so it provides minimal treatment during periods of heavy rain. Of course, that reallly doesn't matter as the collection system carries both sanitary and storm water and overflows into the city and onto the beach during heavy rain.
There has been no improvement in the last 5 years even with the new construction that I am aware of, so the situation has gotten much worse. If HH wasn't close to Bangkok where we have a house, I would have stop going years ago.
And people wonder why tourism is down except for weekend trippers from BKK !!
I went there several years ago. It was antiquated and hydraulically overloaded at the time, so it provides minimal treatment during periods of heavy rain. Of course, that reallly doesn't matter as the collection system carries both sanitary and storm water and overflows into the city and onto the beach during heavy rain.
There has been no improvement in the last 5 years even with the new construction that I am aware of, so the situation has gotten much worse. If HH wasn't close to Bangkok where we have a house, I would have stop going years ago.
And people wonder why tourism is down except for weekend trippers from BKK !!