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A Dam Between Pattaya and Hua Hin ?

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I heard that Bangkok is slowly sinking and in order to avoid flooding of the city there are now plans to build a dam from Pattaya to Hua Hin. Of course with a motorhighway and/or a highspeed train on top of the dam.
Whaddyaknow??
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I've heard the part about Bangkok sinking and have even heard that they expect parts of it to be underwater in as little as 15 years, but I haven't heard about a highway dam before. I seriously doubt I'll seen anything in my lifetime.

It's taken them the entire 5 and a half years I've been living here to complete the highway reconstruction from here to Bangkok (not quite complete yet!).
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Nah, it was talked about, but it has been decided to move the Capital to Phnom Penh, that is why Toxin is over there sorting out the details. 8)
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Bit surprising, didn"t think it was possible for anywhere to sink lower than Pattaya :twisted:
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Condoking wrote:Bit surprising, didn"t think it was possible for anywhere to sink lower than Pattaya :twisted:
I guess it's the ole PatPong pulling it down... :mrgreen:
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Bit surprising, didn"t think it was possible for anywhere to sink lower than Pattaya
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The latest is, that there will be a high speed catamaran on top of the dam. :wink:
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heers:
Lung Per wrote:I heard that Bangkok is slowly sinking and in order to avoid flooding of the city there are now plans to build a dam from Pattaya to Hua Hin. Of course with a motorhighway and/or a highspeed train on top of the dam.
Whaddyaknow??
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Whazzup Lung Per! Bangkok is largely build on marschlands and @ some places it's been sinking about 2 Meters a year. And in some places just under 1 meter a year.
I can tell ya there no official Plans as yet! There are Plans by enviromentalists, water engineering experts who are proposing a Nehterlands type of a dam system to which stretches from Pattaya all the way along de SHorelines and a couple hundred miles Riva up to Petchburi even Hua Hin. without those Flooddams De Floodwatars would be inundating the entire Bangkok/Chao Praya Riva Delta from Samut Prakan all DA way along De shores to Samut Songkram.
(Taking a hit from herbal Cigarette) 2025 Imagine You are sitting @ Suvarnabhumi Airport waiting for your flight out. Suvarnabhumi Airport would be de last place of higher ground. anything South of de Runways would be innundated by 3 to 5 feett if not more of watar.

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The understudy wrote:Cheers:

Whazzup Lung Per! Bangkok is largely build on marschlands and @ some places it's been sinking about 2 Meters a year. And in some places just under 1 meter a year.
I can tell ya there no official Plans as yet! There are Plans by enviromentalists, water engineering experts who are proposing a Nehterlands type of a dam system to which stretches from Pattaya all the way along de SHorelines and a couple hundred miles Riva up to Petchburi even Hua Hin. without those Flooddams De Floodwatars would be inundating the entire Bangkok/Chao Praya Riva Delta from Samut Prakan all DA way along De shores to Samut Songkram.
(Taking a hit from herbal Cigarette) 2025 Imagine You are sitting @ Suvarnabhumi Airport waiting for your flight out. Suvarnabhumi Airport would be de last place of higher ground. anything South of de Runways would be innundated by 3 to 5 feett if not more of watar.

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If it is sinking up til 2 meters every year they better build dam(n) fast :D

What I heard was that Bangkok was sinking 3 inches in average every year...

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A dam will never happen, can you imagine how much co-operation that would require, la la land sort of thinking, another "Ministry of Grand Plans and Wishful Thinking" idea.

They can't even sort out a new rail line or re-pave the roads properly. :roll:
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"Ministry of Grand Plans and Wishful Thinking"
Is that next door to the "Ministry of Silly Walks"? :D
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hhfarang wrote:
"Ministry of Grand Plans and Wishful Thinking"
Is that next door to the "Ministry of Silly Walks"? :D[/quote

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The understudy wrote:a Nehterlands type of a dam system :
Brilliant, this should solve the youth unemployment problem with loads of Thai boys standing all night with their fingers in the dyke. I mean a Dam type dyke not the female version, or do I :?
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It looks like the goverment could be getting ready for a major crackdown on global warming and they could establish Thailand as in international Hub for dam building

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