Accra Metropolitan Chief Executive, Mr Alfred Vanderpuije says the solution to the perennial flood situation in Accra will be the commencement of the Conti Project, which will de-silt the Korle Lagoon.<\/p>\n
According to the Mayor until<\/span> the Korle Lagoon is de-silted to allow the Odaw River to flow into it, Accra will continue to flood when it rains.<\/p>\n ”We need to put the infrastructure in place and we will do so through the Conti Project; the Conti Project will de-silt the Korle Lagoon in its entirety… and<\/span> we will also construct the needed storm drains,” he said on Eyewitness News<\/strong> on Thursday.<\/p>\n He further added that the AMA has been de-silting the drains in Accra, but the biggest challenge is the Korle<\/span> Lagoon.<\/p>\n He also explained that the AMA has been de-silting the drains in the capital else the magnitude of the flood could have been worse. ”We will continue to de-silt the drains as we have been doing…”<\/p>\n ”Every three-six months we are de-silting drains in Accra; we are always de-silting. But we are doing that as a temporary measure,” he noted.<\/p>\n The Conti Project is a five-year\u00a0project to be conducted in three different stages. It is expected to tackle the Accra flooding and some sanitation and environmental challenges bedeviling the city.<\/p>\n The Government of Ghana and the Conti Group of Companies of the United States of America signed a US$660 million dollars for the commencement of the Project.<\/p>\n Mr. Vanderpuije<\/span> stated that until the Korle Lagoon is de-silted to allow the \u00a0Odaw River to flow into it smoothly, Accra will continue to flood when it rains.<\/p>\n ”Naturally the Odaw drain is connected to the Korle Lagoon and so the Odaw drain will only have a free flow when it can empty into the Korle Lagoon; Right now the Korle Lagoon is not flowing, it’s choked,” he lamented.<\/p>\n He revealed that the Ministry of Finance has accepted the Conti Project and have signed up on the financial loan agreement and work will start soon.<\/p>\n Heavy rainfall on Thursday led to\u00a0flooding in parts of Accra. The flood waters rendered many roads almost impassable and also caused heavy vehicular traffic.<\/p>\n Large parts of the Kwame Nkrumah circle, Kaneshie First Light and the Central Business District are completely submerged.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Evans Effah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Accra Metropolitan Chief Executive, Mr Alfred Vanderpuije says the solution to the perennial flood situation in Accra will be the commencement of the Conti Project, which will de-silt the Korle Lagoon. According to the Mayor until the Korle Lagoon is de-silted to allow the Odaw River to flow into it, Accra will continue to flood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":23049,"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-23018","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\/23018","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}