{"id":122145,"date":"2015-06-04T17:51:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T17:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=122145"},"modified":"2015-06-04T17:51:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T17:51:48","slug":"weija-dam-spillways-to-be-opened-after-accra-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=122145","title":{"rendered":"Weija Dam spillways to be opened after Accra floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Weija and surrounding communities will have to\u00a0move out of the area with immediate effect as the\u00a0Ghana Water Company may soon begin spilling excess water from the Weija \u00a0Dam<\/p>\n<p>The decision to spill excess water from the dam is due to the heavy rainfall in the region, some of which is expected upstream of the Densu River \u00a0which is accompanied by high flows into the dam.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise is \u00a0to protect the dam from possible damage or collapse from the overflows from the heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-121995\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_7718.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7718\" width=\"768\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_7718.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_7718-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The capital, Accra \u00a0flooded after torrential rain on Wednesday evening , which caused traffic jams across the city.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-122025\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_77231.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7723\" width=\"768\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_77231.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_77231-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Drastic measure will be taken<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Mahama has stated that drastic measure will be taken to ensure that flooding in the capital becomes a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, government will no longer compromise in dealing with residents who build on waterways.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Weija and surrounding communities will have to\u00a0move out of the area with immediate effect as the\u00a0Ghana Water Company may soon begin spilling excess water from the Weija \u00a0Dam The decision to spill excess water from the dam is due to the heavy rainfall in the region, some of which is expected upstream of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":122154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-122145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}