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General news for Monday, October 26, 2020
Source: presidency.gov.gh
2020-10-26
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the lawn mowing ceremony
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has cut the grass for the start of construction of a sewage network and a wastewater treatment plant, and a solid waste treatment plant, in Tema.
According to President Akufo-Addo, Tema is the most important and well-planned community in Ghana, with a central sewage network, pumping stations and a treatment facility, which were built and commissioned in 1963 and consequently rehabilitated in 1994.
The facility, the president noted, has been closed because nearly all sewer lines have become obsolete and overloaded, generating environmental pollution and causing serious health hazards to residents.
In fact, the initial design capacity of the sewer plant was to treat twenty thousand (20,000) cubic meters of wastewater per day for a total population of fourteen thousand nine hundred thirty-seven (14,937). The current population of Tema, according to the Ghana Statistics Service, is three hundred sixty thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight (360,828).
“The sewerage system may, therefore, not cope with the volumes generated as a result of the population increase,” he said.
The President continued: “That is why the Government considered it prudent to facilitate the construction of an Integrated Recycling and Composting Plant and a Wastewater Treatment Plant to address the environmental sanitation challenges faced by the good people of Tema.”
He explained that the facility will be a modern wastewater treatment plant with a combined system that will treat both the wastewater from the network and the septic waste from sewage trucks.
“The design capacity is 44,000 cubic meters per day for wastewater from the sewer network and 1,000 cubic meters per day for septic waste from cesspool trucks, for areas that are not in the network. The entire wastewater treatment plant will include the construction of a new treatment plant, the rehabilitation / modernization of the pumping stations and the construction of a new reticulation system (sewerage network), ”added President Akufo-Addo.
In addition, a four hundred (400) metric ton state-of-the-art Integrated Recycling and Composting Plant will also be built in Ashaiman, and is expected to receive, classify and process some four hundred (400) tons of municipal solid waste. per day to provide a sustainable solution to the problem of solid waste disposal in and around Ashaiman.
Once completed, the plants will provide the opportunity to have an effective and efficient management of municipal solid and liquid waste in a more ecological and sustainable way.
The production of organic compost for horticultural and agronomic purposes will be an additional advantage to boost agricultural production and the Planting for Food and Employment program.
“The processing of the recyclable fractions of the waste, that is, paper, plastic and metal, for their reuse as inputs for recycling, will improve, in the medium and long term, the sanitation of the area. In addition, the Integrated Composting and Recycling Plant and the Wastewater Plant will create hundreds of direct and indirect employment opportunities, ”he said.
President Akufo-Addo told the meeting that the government has awarded a contract for the dismantling and reengineering of the Kpone (Tema) and Oti (Kumasi) landfills, to receive the growing solid waste generated within Greater Metropolitan Accra and Greater Accra. Metropolitan Kumasi. Areas respectively, in order to restore the sanctity of the environment.
Therefore, he urged all key stakeholders, in particular the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDA), to collaborate with the facility operators.
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