The Bekwai, ghana Geological Survey Power (GGSA) has cautioned that folks close to the Weija Shape and Reservoir live on a period bomb which will be ticking away each day as the particular human activities upon the mountains present a great danger for their lives plus property. The expert explained that the particular sand winning plus rock blasting actions on the shape had slowly destabilized the hills across the Accra-Cape Coast street, particularly around Weija in the Georgia South municipality.
The Principal Seismologist associated with the GGSA, Nicholas Opoku, said the particular activities posed an excellent threat to the particular inhabitants around the particular area. He offered the warning whenever a team associated with officials from numerous ministries and commission rates in charge associated with the environment compensated a visit in order to the Weija Shape and Water Tank last Friday. This individual said the Weija Ridge was section of the Akuapem Fault Area, a line together which seismic dunes occur, which produced up the event of earthquakes within the area.
This individual added that the particular hills in that will area were geologically weak simply because they experienced a lot associated with fractures. "What will be making the situation a lot more difficult will be the mining plus sand winning actions going on right here, " Mr Opoku said. He additional those activities uncovered the soft stones, which had gone through serious erosion, plus should those activities carry on, it would totally erode the center rocks and trigger the hills, with each other with the structures on them, in order to collapse.
"The danger is higher right here, since there will be a great deal of buildings about the mountains, inches Mr Opoku extra. He warned men and women moving into other highlands in the region to never engage inside indiscriminate sand earning as the hazards would "be challenging to manage".
Visit: They will was made upwards of representatives by the Environmental Defense Agency (EPA), typically the Ministry of Royaume and Natural Solutions, the GGSA plus the Ghana Chamber regarding Mines. Officials in the Forestry Commission, typically the Minerals Commission, typically the Forestry Services Split and the Georgia South Municipal Assemblage also joined typically the team. The operating Deputy Executive Representative of the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY in charge regarding Operations, Ransford Sekyi, explained how the goal of the go to was to determine destruction to typically the areas and determine on the approach toward salvage typically the situation.
Previous sessions, he said, acquired been made inside 2014, where typically the challenges were discovered but their alert did not deliver the expected effects. "Whenever it down pours, the mud by here washes lower to the essential Accra-Cape Coast highway. It may be an twelve-monthly ritual, " Mister Sekyi said. They explained that nevertheless the situation acquired worsened, a much more everlasting solution can be desired to address that.
Way forward: Mister Sekyi mentioned of which stakeholder meetings can be held to proffer ways to deal with the difficulties. He extra that to repair the case, some properties for the ridge because well as beneath it would possess to be destroyed, which the set up was going in order to oversee."The just thing we observe them do is definitely that during downpours, they de-silt, although that is the treatment of the symptoms involving the challenge. Many of us have to truly uproot the difficulty, " the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY businesses head stated.
Mr Sekyi stated the agency experienced designs to restore the ridge, including that along with almost all stakeholders, such as the occupants around the shape, a sustainable strategy would be applied.
Financing
The City and county Coordinating Director associated with Ga South, Mister Isaac Kwakye, described that funding has been a major barrier to the improvement of work upon the ridge because the assembly failed to have the large amounts of cash involved. "The set up can work in order to an extent, therefore we always work together with other companies such as the EPA plus the Lands Commission rate to help all of us with many associated with these activities, inch Mr Kwakye stated.
