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Wonder if the Soi Excite fairground is getting a permanent stage for live music concerts. At least this one will be facing south. The previous stage was facing east towards where I live. On concert nights I had no trouble hearing the volume 11 music from a little over a 1km away. Those to the south of Soi Excite, you're now the lucky ones. [/url

North end terminus of the Beach Rd drain had a small volume of water coming in. Not sure where it was coming from, but what it did highlight is how plugged up the drains currently are. For the small amount of water coming in it should barely cover the bottom of the basin before draining away, not fill the basin 3/4 full of water. Next open basin the water was barely moving. I wonder how far down the drain the construction debris extends, and to what depth. Not sure what they're working on down in the hole, but whatever they're doing they've been busy it at for a few days now.

Think it was supposed to be finished by February 13th, what year jokes aside. I can understand the delay though with the amount of tourists and traffic in Pattaya now. Hard to finish a roadworks project in this environment, at least for the Thais.

North end of Beach Rd was blocked for a short time this morning while they did a bit of tree trimming. Putting in rebar for the final section of storm drain. Drain pipe is now more than half full of sand. Making the beach look nice for all the tourists in town. Cleaning out the sand from the Soi 6 catch basin. Honest, I only stopped here to take a pic of the footpath repairs. I had speculated they would pour a single concrete cap that would cover the entire catch basin. Looks like I was wrong and they're doing it in two sections.

The vacant land next to Pirates on Soi Full Love Inn is being cleared. Prep work for new construction maybe? Noticed too the Full Love Inn is once again open for business. As are the ST rooms off of Soi Bongkoch.

Some shots of the new building on 3rd Rd near Klang.

Today's Beach Rd drainage project update. Nice we can once again walk on the beach footpath without getting hassled by the BIB. New curbs are now north of Klang. I hadn't noticed this before. The electric cable snake. Starts out above ground at a junction box. Then dives underground for a short distance. Then pops back up here. Then disappears into this mess. South end is almost ready the concrete truck.

Checkpoint at Klang as of this morning. Still doing document and temperature check.

Something new is going up on the empty land next to Soi Excite. Maybe a clone of Tree Town? Whatever it is that's going up, it's using some hefty I beams.

The Eastern Water Resources Dept released their 24 April weekly water situation report (link). This chart shows only a small decrease of .8 MCM from the previous week. The chart below however reports a decrease of 9.69 MCM which doesn't not match the week to week numbers in the above chart. In the end it probably doesn't matter as the result is the same, the reservoirs are out of usable water.

Recent rains have had no positive effect on the reservoir level. It'll take at least a day of heavy, constant monsoon rains to begin to refill the reservoir.

The beer bars and boxing ring just before the WS entrance are no more. Edited to add: I see in another post the area is being remodeled. But the other one farther up WS looks safe for now.

Won't be long now before the north end of Beach Rd is concreted over, and hopefully the last bits of drains connected. Hope someone notices the north end catch basin is almost full of sand before they close it up. Connecting the drains at the Soi 6 junction. This guy has found a nice cool spot to sleep the day away. Southend is about finished too.

We had a bit of rain the last few days, so let's see what effect, if any it had on the Mabprachan Puddle. In a nutshell, no effect. And if anything, the level is lower than the last update on the 16th. This pump is new since the last update. But it wasn't running this morning. When I made my way over to the pumping station I was a surprised to hear the pumps running. But looking at the channel feeding the pumps I could see no movement of water, nor could I feel water moving through the big pipes exiting the pumps. My guess is they're periodically running the motors to knock off the rust and dust, but not pumping any water. Back in September 2015 they sucked this area dry. This time around they probably figure it's not worth the effort for the small amount of water left here. Still watering the grass in the park.

Another option is installing a print screen app. Advantage of the app is it gives you more control over what part of the screen you capture, and it'll save the screenshot to a file as well as the clipboard. The one I've been using for years is Gadwin PrintScreen. https://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/

And why when I hear news reports in Thai my ears pick up on the news reporter saying Covid 19 most of the time and not Covid sip gao.

The first ever YouTube video was uploaded 15 years ago today

Another article about what we've known about for months. I don't understand why there is no mention in the article they have stopped pumping from Mabprachan since about 15 April? Pattaya Water Authority says Mapprachan Lake Reservoir now at critical level but will continue to ration water

Thanks, but hardly an expert. More like too much time on my hands now. I stumbled on to the article just posted because of your mention of percolation. That got me to wondering if they were using that method to help recharge the aquifer used in Bangkok. I didn't see anything on that subject, but the use of an aquifer in Isan did pop up. Which also points out how we live in a wonderful age where information on pretty much any subject is just a search engine and a couple of mouse clicks away.

At least one region is looking into tapping the aquifer for water. New study into use of huge aquifer in Isan NAKHON RATCHASIMA: A new study will explore ways of bringing up water from a huge underground aquifer for use in four northeastern provinces - Nakhon Ratchasima, Chaiyaphum, Buri Ram and Surin. The artesian basin stores about 16,000 million cubic metres of groundwater and was found relatively recently, a Groundwater Resources Department official said on Wednesday. The Nakhon Ratchasima-based Zone 5 Groundwater Resources Office is responsible for groundwater use in the four provinces. Office director Surat Buaphan said that if the groundwater can be brought up it would be a boon for farmers in the Northeast who rely on rainfall during the wet season for agriculture. Their land lies unused during the dry season due to lack of water. Of the four provinces under his office, Nakhon Ratchasima, Chaiyaphum and Buri Ram have already been declared drought-hit zones this year. Surin is not included as it has a sufficient supply of surface water, thanks to rain brought by former tropical storm Podul. In Nakhon Ratchasima, artesian wells have been sunk at all villages so it was quite certain there would be sufficient water for consumption this dry season, he said. Groundwater from artesian wells at more than 400 schools is being processed for use as drinking water, and can also be used by people from nearby communities, he said. Of the estimated 16,000 million cubic metres of water in the aquifer, only about 11% of it is being pumped for use. The department study will explore ways of making the most use of it.

Two possible reasons they can't dig deeper. One is the dam itself is designed to hold back a specified volume of water. If the capacity of the reservoir were increased, the weight of the additional water may exceed the design limitations of the dam. Second reason is by digging the reservoir deeper the pumping station would also have to be modified to reach the new bottom of the reservoir.

^^^ Excellent drone footage. It's interesting to see how it looks from the air. TFP.