Expansion works on Kpong Water Plant almost completed
Expansion works on the Kpong Water Treatment Plant are almost completed. When fully completed, the plant, which is expected to start full operations in January next year, will increase its production from 48 to 88 million gallons of water a day.
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The project, estimated at $273 million, is currently 96 per cent completed and undergoing pre-commissioning testing.
The works undertaken included the construction of a new raw water intake facility on the Volta Lake and a new 40-million- gallon-a-day treatment plant.
Other components of the expansion project include the construction of a new transmission pipeline through Dodowa, Oyibi and Adentan to the Accra Booster Station.
When the project comes on stream, residents of Adentan, Madina and surrounding areas who have suffered irregular water supply for 25 years will have continuous water flow.
Beginning this Christmas, the new project will start an initial production of 20 million gallons of water a day, half of its capacity, and later increase its production to 40 million gallons upon completion by January next year .
The Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Alhaji Collins Dauda, who inspected work on the project last Tuesday, said it formed part of the government’s intervention measures to end the perennial water shortage in the Greater Accra metropolis.
He said in view of some projects being undertaken by the government, including the Kpong water supply expansion project, the Teshie-Nungua Sea water desalination project and the Accra-Tema Metropolitan Area rural water supply project, the problem of water shortage would be no more in 2015.
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Alhaji Dauda also inspected the ongoing test transmission of the Teshie-Nungua Sea Water Desalination Water Project.
Under the project, sea water will be treated and made potable for delivery by the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) to Teshie-Nungua and its environs.
The project is expected to produce an additional 13 million gallons of water every day.
Alhaji Dauda said the desalination project was expected to supplement shortfalls in water production in the Accra-Tema areas which required a minimum of 160 million gallons of water every day but currently produced 80 million gallons on a daily basis.
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