WORK on a major mechanised borehole water project to drastically ease the perennial water problem in Aburi and its surrounding areas will be completed by the end of the month.
The project, which is a temporary intervention ahead of a $71-million programme in the Eastern Region, will also improve water supply to Aburi town, Aburi Girls’ Senior High School and the Peduase Lodge.
A member of the Board of Directors of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), Group Captain Michael S.K. Dordor (retd), who disclosed this when he led a delegation from the board on a tour of the project site, said the borehole project formed part of the government's commitment to end the water problem in the town and its surrounding areas.
The project, being financed by the GWCL at an initial cost of GH¢70,000, involves the mechanisation of boreholes, the construction of transmission mains from the boreholes to existing reservoirs, the construction of a borehole starter pump house and the connection of electricity to the pump house.
The delegation, which included Mr Arnold H.K. Seshie and Mr Moses Pecku, inspected progress of work on a borehole in Aburi and the Peduase Presidential Lodge following media reports of water shortage at the Aburi Secondary School.
Group Captain Dordor expressed delight at the progress and quality of work undertaken so far and urged the workers to complete the project on schedule.
He said contrary to earlier reports in sections of the media, there was no backwash of dirty water into the reservoir at Aburi.
Mr Michael Botse Baidoo, a project manager at GWCL, who guided the tour, told the board members that so far the borehole had been drilled and the construction of transmission pipelines to the reservoirs completed.
He noted that the project would be fully completed by the end of November when electricity would be connected to the starter pump house, adding that in the interim the GWCL had mounted a generator set to pump water from the borehole to give temporary relief to the people of Aburi.
At Aburi Girls’ High School, the headmistress said the school relied on a borehole for water supplied through tanker services.
She said the school owned one water tanker vehicle which it used, together with a few hired ones, to fetch water from the borehole and sometimes from far away Madina in Accra.
Group Captain Dordor, who was not happy with the poor water supply situation in the school, promised to direct the GWCL to offer free technical assistance in the detection and repair of leakage to help put back to use an abandoned underground reservoir in the school.
He expressed the hope that the mechanised borehole project would be completed on schedule to save the school from further hardship and disruption of academic work.
On the GH¢71 million project, he said both the Eastern and some parts of the Greater Accra regions would be beneficiaries as the government sought a permanent solution to the water problem in Aburi and its surrounding areas.
He said the contractors, Messrs Tahal Group BV and Tahal Consulting Engineers, had already commenced work on the project involving the construction of a treatment plant, transmission and distribution pipelines and reservoirs.
Group Captain Dordor said the project, known as the Accra-Tema Rural Water Supply System, was expected to be completed by the end of 2011 and it would benefit Aburi, the Peduase Lodge and over 80 towns in the Eastern and Greater Accra regions, especially those found on the Akuapem Ridge and the Accra Plains.
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