Kumasi to get new landfill site
The French Government, through its development agency, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), is supporting the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly with a grant of two million Euros for the construction of an additional engineered landfill site at Dompoase in the Ashanti Region.
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The project, which is expected to begin in two months, is anticipated to last for at least 20 years. The new facility will take the pressure from the old site, which has been in operation for the past 15 years.
The development process will involve excavation works, preparation of a base structure and construction of clay lining, as well as a process that will connect pipes to ponds from where leachate from the landfill will be treated.
The Metropolitan Chief Executive, Mr Kojo Bonsu, said when the project was completed, it would make the landfill site in Kumasi the most sophisticated facility in the country.
Mr Bonsu urged residents to properly manage waste they generated in order that cholera and other diseases affecting parts of the country would be defeated.
The CEO assured residents that everything was being done to ensure that sanitation in the metropolis was handled well in order to promote healthy and safe living conditions for all.
He appealed to residents to respect the city’s bye-laws, which have been instituted with the idea of making life worthwhile for them.
Mr Bonsu said to bring about an improved environment free from diseases, operators of public toilets and sanitation officers had been retrained for them to keep abreast of best practices in the world. He said the training was also to teach them what to do so that they would not be infected.
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The Director in charge of waste management at the KMA, Mr Anthony Mensah, promised that the assembly would regularly spray the landfill site and also provide basic protective gears for sanitary workers who would be posted to the site.