GOVERNMENT TO COMMENCE DREDGING OF BAREKESE & OWABI RIVERS – CECILIA DAPAAH(voice)

By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah

Plans are far advanced by the government to dredge the Owabi and Barekese Rivers in the Atwima Nwabiagya South District, Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has disclosed.
According to her, the dredging works will commence with Owabi as she explained that this has become necessary because of siltation.

“What was left was the feasibility studies, and fortunately for us the studies are ready. The report is coming out in a week or two and then we will hit the road.”

“As you know it was constructed with a depth of 22.5 feet and now we have 6 feet. So dangerously dredging is needed immediately so we are going to have it done,” she said.

Mrs Dapaah made the disclosure while speaking to journalists after paying a working visit to the Owabi and Barekese Dams which construction dates back to the 1960s.
The visit was part of her four-day tour of water bodies and treatment plants in the Eastern and Ashanti Regions.

Earlier, the minister visited the Oda river in Odaso in the Ashanti Region where she lamented the fact that about 140,000 people were being deprived of safe potable water in Obuasi Municipality and its surroundings due to illegal mining activities also known as ‘galamsey’.
She attributed the worrying situation to galamsey on river Oda in Odaso of the Obuasi Municipality, which was not making it impossible for the Ghana Water Company’s treatment plant to operate at full capacity.