The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) in the Central Region has straight denied complicity in the new flood fiasco that crushed scores of networks in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem Municipality and its environs and obliterated the Jukwa-Cape Coast fundamental street, delivering suburbanites abandoned.
On Saturday, June 18, there were monstrous floods in pieces of the Central Region and occupants generally faulted the GWCL for spilling abundance water from its Brimsu dam without earlier notification.
In any case, the organization on a media visit through its New Brimsu Waterworks office on Monday, July 18, disproved any contribution in the rising waters, showing that the dam didn't have spill doors.
Nana Yaw Barima Barnie, the Western and Central Regional Communications Manager of the organization, let writers know that all things considered, there was an unexpected flood of the dam between June 17 and June 18 which brought about the third most elevated flood occurrence nearby after July 1955 and June 1979.
He said the occurrence overwhelmed them since there were no signs that the water would run-off, for which reason they couldn't caution occupants in its catchment regions.
That Notwithstanding, he kept up with that the flood of the dam was not the reason for the demolitions at Jukwa and abutting networks since they are arranged upstream the dam.
"Water doesn't stream in the converse bearing and thusly anything abundance water that leaves this dam can't go to Jukwa Road and obliterate it thus that charge that Ghana Water Company was complicit in what occurred on the Jukwa street is something we ought to settle," he said.
Nana Barnie implied that the reason for the abrupt flood of the dam was at this point to be laid out however thought that it could have come down vigorously somewhere else.
He noticed that GWCL had consistently forewarned occupants in catchment regions in front of huge overflows, demanding that it was anything but an instance of carelessness on their part.
The Brimsu dam was built in 1928 and had gone through a few mediations over the course of the years to expand its ability.
Dissimilar to the Weija Dam in Accra, the dam was not intended to have a spill entryway.
It normally spills over at 19 feet and could cause flooding in abutting networks when the water levels hit 32 feet.
The dam was spilling over when the group got to the site.
Being the second greatest water treatment plant in the Central Region after Kwanyako, the New Brimsu water treatment plant which sources crude water from the Kakum River, can create 8.5 million gallons of treated water each day.
Mr Barnie said to alleviate the effect of flooding in abutting networks and check the episodes of periodic water proportioning, the organization would begin considering the choice of building an establishment to hold abundance water.
He further saw that the treatment plant confronted no issues with contaminated water as the Kakum River was liberated from galamsey and other infamous exercises.
Mr George Buddy, the Station Manager who drove the group on the visit, said the interest of encompassing networks was principal to the organization and would in this way not act to endanger their lives in any capacity.
"It worked out by accident more or less and there was no way around it; we had zero control over it," he said.
Making sense of why a few networks in Cape Coast were all the while confronting water emergency, he noticed the utilization levels had surpassed the limit of the treatment plant, adding that the limit should have been extended.
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