Phuket officials respond to black water at beach

UPDATE

Phuket officials have responded to the incident involving black water flowing into the sea at a beach. The black wastewater at Karon Beach near Nong Harn Lake came to officials’ attention on Sunday. A report by the Phuket office of the Public Relations Department said the water was “causing tourists to panic and run away from the sea.”

Officers from Karon Municipality arrived to inspect the site yesterday. The team included Karon Deputy Mayor Wanlop Nadon, along with the municipality’s head of Wastewater Treatment Works.

The report said that rain in the area usually washed away sediment in the channel coming from local public waterways. However, a key factor was that the channel had not been dredged for 10 years, according to the report. The report said this caused the water flowing into the sea to turn black, similar to…