The Chief Executive Officer of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Dr Alfred Oko Vanderpuiye has indicated that the Accra Waste Treatment Plant will soon be completed.
The Mudor plant when completed in December this year, will serve as a dumping site for faecal waste.
An Accra High Court ordered AMA to cease from dumping untreated liquid sewerage at the Korle Gonno Beach, popularly called Lavender Hill.
The assembly was also asked to comply with the enforcement notice issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to build digesters to treat the waste to protect the environment and to make copies of its decommissioning plan available to the EPA within 14 days.
The AMA boss who was speaking to the press on Wednesday gave the assurance that the popular Lavender Hill will no longer be a dumping site for faecal waste and that the Mudor plant that has not been operating for over 15 years now is 80 per cent complete with renovation plans.
�We have just awarded contract for the sewage lines to be reactivated and connected to the Mudor plant. We have brought on board six digesters and we are working to get more financing so that we can expand� he hinted.
Meanwhile, the AMA has in collaboration with the Ministry of Local Government and other stakeholders rolled out a free waste bin distribution exercise.
The AMA boss said the project is part of ongoing efforts to ensure cholera outbreak in Accra and other parts of the country is adequately tackled.
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