Ministry to overhaul Aburi’s boreholes

THE Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Housing, is to overhaul boreholes which have been abandoned in Aburi for more than a decade to make them functional to solve the perennial water shortage in the district capital.
Beneficiaries of the project would include Aburi Girls and Adonten Senior High Schools, the Peduase Lodge and most parts of Aburi in the Eastern Region.
The Deputy Minister of the sector, Dr Hannah Louisa Bisiw, who undertook a feasibility tour of the boreholes, beneficiary schools, Peduase Lodge and its surrounding communities said one of the numerous boreholes could produce at least 540 gallons of water per minute if properly mechanised.
Dr Bisiw appealed to the Chief of Aburi, Nana Kwesi Djan II, to allow the government to develop the boreholes to ensure the provision of adequate water supply for the beneficiaries.
Dr Bisiw tasked the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) to furnish the ministry with a quality control report of the periodic water sampling of the main Aburi Water Reservoir into which all the boreholes would be connected.
She, therefore, urged GWCL to collaborate with McDonnell Contract Mining Limited, a construction firm that was contracted by the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) of Aburi Senior High School to build mechanised boreholes specifically for the provision of potable water for the school, when the school was faced with water shortages in the 1990s.
Mr Michael Botse-Baidoo, the Planning Engineer of GWCL, who was part of the team, gave the assurance that plans were underway to mechanise the boreholes, while pipes already procured by the company were to be laid very soon.
Nana Djan II, who lauded the initiative, expressed appreciation to the government for embarking on the study to address the perennial water shortage that had affected the Aburi township for decades, particularly during the dry season.