WORK ON SELECTED STORM DRAINS ONGOING (PAGE 30, OCT 29)

CONSTRUCTION work on selected storm drains in the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis are on course.
About 56 per cent of work on the project is completed, as against the projected 62 per cent, as a result of the rains during construction.
The project was awarded in February 20, last year, and it is expected to be completed by the end of this year.
With a contract sum of GH¢3,188,476.00, it forms part of the Urban Environmental Sanitation Project (UESP) being funded by the International Development Association.
It involves the improvement of 1.8 kilometers of the Kokompe -Adakope drain, improvement of 1,120 meters of the Ashanti Road-Kokompe drain and the construction of reinforcement rain concrete of 600 meters of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL)-Maersk drain.
The rest are the construction of reinforcement concrete lining of 550 meters of the West Tanokrom main stream drain, the construction of two culverts on the Effia Nkwanta Hospital branch drain and the construction of 500 meters reinforcement concrete lining of the Kansaworodo-Effia-Number Nine drain.
The Project Co-ordinator of the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly, Mr Simon Labi Addo, who briefed the Daily Graphic on the progress of work, said the construction of the two culverts on the Effia Nkwanta Hospital branch drain would be completed by the end of this month.
He said work on the Kansaworodo-Effia-Number Nine drain was 95 per cent complete, while work on the West Tanokrom main stream drain was 40 per cent complete.
“The projects are supposed to be completed by the end of this year. If the rains do not interrupt work, the project should be completed as scheduled”, he stated.
Mr Addo, however, expressed concern about the swampy nature of some of the areas, which, he added was creating a difficulty in the operation of machinery. .
The Sekondi/Takoradi Storm Drain Project is being executed by Messrs China Zhong Hao (Ghana) Limited, with Municipal Development Collaborative Limited (MDC) as consultants.