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Is the sea at Jomtien clean?

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14 September 2022

Dear readers,

I am staying in Jomtien for 3 weeks. Now I like to lie on the beach and when it gets hot a refreshing dip in the sea is a welcome relief.

I know that the sea water at Pattaya is like an open sewer, but what is it like in Jomtien? Of course I don't feel like swimming in the excrement.

Regards,

Bart

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17 Responses to “Is the sea clean at Jomtien?”

  1. Eric Donkaew says up
    14 September 2022 on 16: 47

    Beautiful. As far as a sea can be clean, of course. I live there.

  2. Johan says up
    14 September 2022 on 18: 25

    Bart…..Almost everywhere in Thailand sewage is discharged into the sea…so also there…now there are not so many tourists…so…but I only swim in a swimming pool….I think you better not do that…..greetings Johan

  3. John 2 says up
    14 September 2022 on 18: 37

    Not such an inviting sea. Plastic debris in the sand. I saw them kitesurfing near the Glasshouse a few years ago. It's better than Pattaya though. Less odor from speed boats and jet skis.

  4. Gerard says up
    14 September 2022 on 18: 49

    The sea water is not clean. I've been sailing there for about 9 years now and see that the sea water only clears a few kilometers from the coast. But is it cleaner?

  5. Harry says up
    14 September 2022 on 19: 06

    It is an open sewer I think that with this water quality it should be forbidden to swim. Talk about three years ago. But don't expect it to be better now.

  6. Hank Hauer says up
    15 September 2022 on 02: 34

    It's not an open sewer. The rainwater enters the sea.
    That includes street garbage.
    Dirt washed up on the tide line, especially at dead tide
    A little further on water quite clean.
    I have been swimming every other day for over 10 years no problem

    • John says up
      15 September 2022 on 10: 45

      From Soi watboon jomtien a large sewer pipe runs into the sea. They extended it into the sea a few years ago, on land at Soi watboon they couldn't get the connection done for me, it took months. Of course nothing flowed through at that time, but the stench was unbearable. I hardly ever swam in the sea anymore, but never again since that time. Good luck.

  7. khun moo says up
    15 September 2022 on 08: 05

    I don't know the situation in Jomtien,
    In some places in Thailand you can see a clear brown spot several hundred meters into the sea.
    Not all day, but at certain times.
    I would inquire locally with the Thai people where and how their sewage is drained.
    They don't give a shit about that.
    I assume that on islands the sewage drains directly into the sea.

  8. William says up
    15 September 2022 on 10: 33

    You can assume that the entire "head" of the Gulf of Thailand is polluted, including feces and many other things that are not fresh.
    In some places people will dump it 'neatly' at a few hundred meters into the sea at a greater depth. In many places it goes straight into the river or the gulf where people live or float, so surface water.
    Don't forget the many boats with and without tourists.
    No more hoppa in the gulf or rivers.
    Lying on the beach is very nice and fun, you have to swim somewhere else if you are wise.
    A swimming pool, so to speak.

    This kind of problem does not occur a few tens of kilometers along the coastline.
    There are of course always places where the current is favorable and there are no drainage channels for the believers among us.

  9. January says up
    15 September 2022 on 14: 17

    Dear Bart.

    "People discharge into the open sea a long way into the water in the middle of pattaya, off the coast, raw sewage water that dilutes and depending on the wind it goes somewhere, who knows which way the current is.

    One also discharges the same off the coast of Jomtien into the sea an open sewer, also depending on the current where it goes, whether to the beach or elsewhere, depends on the weather.

    Regards Jan, pictures were taken of it once, I took it with an airplane

  10. Jan says up
    15 September 2022 on 14: 20

    Every few days I swim in the sea at Jomtien, apart from some litter that eventually ends up in the sea due to the heavy rains of recent times, the sea is reasonably clean.
    Where that nonsense comes from that sewers are still being discharged into the sea is absolutely not true.
    Those who write that here have probably been to Thailand years ago or never.

    • John says up
      15 September 2022 on 17: 59

      Come to Jomtien every year for 3-4 months, have seen and smelled the extension of the sewer pipe myself, so don't tell nonsense now.

      • Stan says up
        16 September 2022 on 05: 37

        Dear John,

        I live in Jomtien myself and have personally seen the sewer works.
        Indeed, there is still plenty of discharge into the sea. This is also the reason why I will never swim in the sea.

    • Jacques says up
      16 September 2022 on 05: 44

      Jan,

      I have lived there for more than 10 years and would like to show you personally where the sewers are discharged into the sea. It's not because you swim there regularly that you have to deny this.

      Enjoy your swimming parties.

  11. Paco says up
    15 September 2022 on 16: 53

    I live in Jomtien right on the beach in View Talay 5 overlooking Koh Larn. I've been living in Jomtien for at least 10 years and I've been swimming almost every day for all those years. The fact that the sea here is not crystal clear blue is mainly because the first 100 meters are fairly shallow. This makes the water appear to have a brown color. Only after that distance is the water very clear, because the bottom is no longer visible. I have never had problems with discharges through sewers here. There are days when plastic, wood, rope and remnants of fishing nets wash ashore. But of course that is everywhere.
    In all those 10 years I have never gotten sick. I don't know anyone who has ever gotten sick here. You won't either. Have a nice holiday Bart.

  12. William says up
    16 September 2022 on 10: 33

    Dear Bart

    Jo Traveling says this [There are more] Pattaya is not to be, Jomtien is better somewhere else.
    We are talking about swimming for the sake of clarity.
    And yes where is the link elsewhere https://bit.ly/3RN2nVN for you.
    For example, you read that every beach has a point of lesser appreciation, but it concerned excrement, whether or not processed into pea soup.
    You immediately see something of the coast.
    For the rest if you surf on Google [this for some gentlemen] you will see that Jomtien turned down the offer for temporary connection to a water treatment plant in Pattaya in 2018.
    So……………………

  13. khun moo says up
    16 September 2022 on 17: 19

    Apparently it's even on film.

    https://thepattayanews.com/2019/05/20/wastewater-filmed-flowing-into-sea-in-na-jomtien-causes-temporary-swimming-ban-urgent-meetings/


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