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Looks like we're about to get some much needed rain. https://weather.tmd.go.th/svp120Loop.php

Came home about 10pm last night and passed a fire dept water truck the next soi over filling water tanks for free. Unfortunately they never made it over to our soi, but a private truck was filling tanks for a small tip. Word from my lady is the water was paid for by Hollywood Pattaya as advertising for their venue, and a local politico looking to gain favor and votes in the next election. Smart thinking on both parties parts. The truck ran out of water before it got to our house, so my lady stayed up until midnight to wait for the trucks return. Topped up our below ground tank and my rain

The soi I rent a house on near Klang and Sukhumvit has had no city water for two days now. Thank Buddha I have three, 1000 L tanks to hold me over until the city turns the water back on again.

As promised, the latest photo update of the shrinking Mabprachan Reservoir. You can see in the screenshot below today's ride spent a lot of time riding areas that used to be underwater, but is now bone dry lakebed. First up is the southern edge of the water. Pic 01: Still a bit of water, but not much, around the overflow structure. Northern edge of the water. Pic 02: Panoramic shot looking east at what's left of the main body of water in the reservoir. Pic 03: Pumping water from the main body to the channel that leads to the pumping station. Pic

The Eastern Water Resources dept has finally gotten around to updating their Weekly Water Situation report. The last report I posted was on 21 February, and the combined reservoir level stood then at 63.15 million cubic meters (MCM). Their 28 February report had the level at 58.76 MCM, and the latest report, 6 March reports the level is now at 55.42 MCM. That works out to a water consumption rate of 3.9 MCM/week. We now have about 23.7 MCM of usable water left in the reservoirs, or about 6 weeks of water left. My estimate of 17 April as the day the taps run dry still holds true. I'

I read elsewhere they opened up a U Turn on 2nd Rd, so a trip to immigration might be shorter now.

Was looking for a topic to post a TIT example and found this 15 year old thread to resurrect with a new post. Saw this on a bike ride in Bang Lamung yesterday. There's a long stretch of recently completed road and a brand spanking new footpath. Not a worker in sight, nor any barricades to be seen. Not sure how long it's been since they completed the concrete work, but every one of the drain access shafts on the footpath looked like this.

Our group ride yesterday was different from our usual off road, Friday rides. Yesterday's ride leader called it the Urban Commando Ride, and it was just that. A lot of road riding mixed with bits of off road. It was also a long ride at 50.8 km that took us as far north as Laem Chabang Port. Thought I'd post the ride details incase someone is looking for a route to ride that's a bit different. First stop was about 11 km into the ride at the Forbidden Floating Temple. A place until now I didn't know existed. The entrance to the Temple is Chittaphon Wan Buddhist College, just off Sukhumvit.

They're now up to across from the Amari hotel breaking up the road surface for the Beach Rd drainage project. Soi 1 they've started digging. They're setting up the Soi 6 pumps again, probably not for any expected rain, but to help drain the water that has been collecting in the drains under construction. South end of Beach Rd. now getting backfilled. A few more pics of the beach. South end has new shelters for the homeless. 11:30 am and only one parasail up

Opposite here. They concrete over huge swaths of land that once served as natural percolation ponds. Then they wonder why they have flooding in the sois. In normal years the monsoon rains do a more than adequate job of topping up the reservoirs ahead of the dry season. Last year was drier than normal, thus the deficit in water we're now seeing. From what I hear, outside of Pattaya a lot of housing estates and private houses use boreholes for their water supply. What I've not seen or heard of though is the city supply using the same as a backup to the reservoirs. Easy enough for th

Who was the bird that left him with blue balls.

Easy to find her email on her website. http://www.namstaxipattaya.com/contact Email namnamthailand@gmail.com

A lot of rebar work going on at the Millennium project.

On my ride around Mabprachan Reservoir today I saw the Provincial Water Authority is doing its part to keep our AQI numbers up.

The Eastern Water Resources dept was a bit more timely posting their weekly update. Water consumption is still at 4 million cubic meters/week, so the estimate of sucking the last drop of usable water somewhere around 17 April, if not sooner still holds true regardless of what the govt would like you to believe.

My reply to you in post #260 had a link to a topic on the Beach Rd work.

On another forum there was a post that cited unnamed sources that Jomtien immigration is no longer requiring the 90 day financial report. As I agree Jomtien is one of the better immigration offices, I wouldn't be surprised if this was true as it would be more efficient to check hat your balance hadn't dropped below 400k in the preceding 12 months at the time of your next extension renewal.

Early November it's fine. From later November until early March we get an increasing number of burning fields combined with seasonal temperature inversion layer that trap the shit close to the ground. Temperature inversion, a reversal of the normal behaviour of temperature in the troposphere (the region of the atmosphere nearest the Earth’s surface), in which a layer of cool air at the surface is overlain by a layer of warmer air. (Under normal conditions air temperature usually decreases with height.) temperature inversionSmoke ceiling formed by a temperature invers

Pattaya Water Reservoir at Mapprachan Lake at lowest level in twenty years Interesting stat from the article... "the reservoir hit the lowest level in twenty years at 16% left of the total volume of the lake", I think that's a fair estimate of what usable water remains. I call BS on this statement though, "local leaders say the volume of water they have is enough to last through May when more rain is predicted" At current consumption levels I expect the reservoir to run out of usable water by mid-April, if not sooner.

A very hazy sunrise this morning, and the reason why...

The house water supply has a more expensive Hitachi water booster pump. I went cheap on the rainwater system as it's low use, intended only for watering the garden.

Think it was sometime around 2014/2015 they dredged out the north end and used the spoil to fill in and create the park areas on the north and northeast sides of the reservoir.

They might be waiting for the reservoir to run dry before starting that work. At the very least I would expect they'll take a close look of where the pockets of water are and dredge deeper channels to them. They'll then have full access to all the water without having to resort to pumps to get the water to the pumping station.

Thanks. The rainwater system catches rain from the downspout on one side of the house, which is the only side the owner installed gutters on. Even though it's only one side of the roof that I'm catching rain from, during normal rainy times it will be more than enough to keep the 1,000L tank topped up. The clear plastic tubing on side of the tank is my DIY water level measuring device. The tank feeds into a cheap, 1450B water pump. I made a mistake by using screw in elbow joints to the pump. In order to align the elbow in the correct direction, I couldn't tighten them all

Time for the bi-weekly update of the shrinking Mabprachan Reservoir. As before, for reference purposes a screenshot of where the pics were taken. Water Edge as of 23 Feb, 2020 Pic 01: Quite a few more tree stumps exposed. Pic 02 Only a small gap now in the land bridge. Pic 03: Estimate another 1/2m drop in the water level. Probably the last time I can use this spot as a water level gauge since it looks like in another week there'll be dry land around the structure. Water Edge as of 23 Feb, 2020 Pic 04: Innovative use of a boat's pontoon f