Chris Twum
27 August 2008
Aqua Vitens Rand Limited (AVRL), a water management company in Ghana, has announced the shutdown of the Accra booster station, to enable it commerce an Interconnection West- East project.
This project is to curb down the inefficiency of water supply by outmoded water pumps, with replacements of higher capacity pressure pumps by the company to meet the increasing demands of the public. The project is expected to be executed in ten days. Speaking to a cross-section of the media, during a tour of the refurbished site of the project, the Deputy Manager of Water Resources Limited, Mr. Kwaku Botwe, observed that the project was intended as a moving intervention stage to the customers of Ghana. Mr. Botwe said that an additional 15 million gallons per day (MGD) would be added by the project, with the expansion of the capacity of the Weija Treatment Works, adding up to a total capacity of 57 MGD.
"As part of the project 8 million gallons of this quantity would be transferred daily from Weija to the Accra Booster Station, to ease the water situation in the North Eastern parts of Accra," he added. Mr. Botwe noted that the remaining supply of water would be used to improve water supply to Central Accra up to La and beyond, as well as the fast-expanding Weija-Kasoa corridor.
Mr. Theo Smit, General Manager of Distribution of AVRL, hinted that in view of the shutdown of the station, 26 water tankers had been made available to distribute water to the affected areas, to ease water problems associated with the shutdown. Mr. Smit cited that areas, which were going to be hit hard, are those who depend on water from Kpong, including the Madina, Adenta and settlements along the Dodowa and Aburi roads, Cantonments, Labone, La, Teshie, Ashalley Botwe, Adjirigano, East Legon, Dome, Achimota, Taifa, Kwabenya, and the developing settlements along the Nsawam road. The project is expected to improve water supply in the metropolis, and sever over 823,000 people in the said communities.
The project would allow the replacement of the three existing HPZ pumps, with the capacity of pumping 500 metre cube (110,000 gallons) of water per hour, with those which can pump 1,000 metre cube (220,000 gallons) of water per hour, at the Accra booster Station. There is going to be an installation of three new pumps for the Medium Pressure Zone, laying of 1.5 km pipelines, for the outlets of the existing pumps with large (700mm) manifolds.
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