Kpong maintenance work completed

The Kpong Water Treatment Plant was shutdown on Thursday, February 27, 2013 after some leakages were identified on some of the pipes, resulting in an acute water shortage in some parts of Accra.

Speaking on Radio Gold, the Communications Manager of the Ghana Water Company Limited, Mr Michael Agyeman said the maintenance work was completed on Sunday and expressed optimism that water supply to affected areas would resume today.

“We started production last night and we are sure that nothing will go wrong. Since we started pumping we have not seen any leakage and so we are very hopeful that everything is ok now. And now that water has started flowing through, I’m sure that by close of day people should see water flowing through their taps,” he said.

Mr Agyeman also noted that the Kpong Intake Rehabilitation Project  and the Accra-Tema Metropolitan Area Rural Water rehabilitation is expected to be completed in the next three months.

He said, when completed, an additional daily production of 12.3 million gallons of water would be added to the already existing 6 million gallons.