FG flags off central effluent treatment plants in Kano

CETP capable of handling 15,000m^3/day volume for Challawa; and a primary treatment plant of 1,000m^3/day capacity for Bompai.

It also recommended the construction of closed effluent conveyance pipes and covered culverts in all the industrial sites as well as road improvement, especially at Challawa and Sharada Industrial Areas.

Messrs Alps Global Link, which last year won a competitive bidding, moved to site last April. Construction work is proceeding steadily. A team of journalists, which toured the project sites at Sharada, Challawa and Bompai recently found workmen at all the locations laying pipes through deep tunnels.

Nurain Akewusola, a civil engineer, spoke on the scope of the project, which entails digging tunnels and laying pipes across over 10 kilometres. Every 30 metres apart is a reinforced concrete chamber, between 2.5 and 4.5 metres deep. The disparity is to facilitate easy flow across varying gradients, said Akewusola, who disclosed that the chambers are linked by 300 mm high density polyethylene pipes.

Hundreds of pipes are linked to three separate effluent treatment plants. Every industrial hub will get a treatment plant. While civil work has reached about 90 per cent level and the construction of the treatment plants would soon commence for the three locations. “We have the full cooperation of the Nigerian Railway Corporation on the site earmarked at Bompai, where construction of the effluent plant has commenced,” said Dr. Lawal. At Sharada and Challawa, the state government is reaching out to host communities in the bid to ensure that workmen have unfettered access to the sites to build the treatment plants. Kano State Commissioner for Environment, Dr. Kabiru Ibrahim Getso, reiterated the resolve of the state government to ensure the prompt completion of the project. He said the Bureau of Land Management has submitted its assessment report which is awaiting the consideration of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje.

Dr. Getso also expressed gratitude to the Federal Government for taking a bold step in containing the persistent environmental challenge faced by the people of Kano, adding that the gesture will restore the industrial glory of Kano State, help old and existing industries to operate more profitably in line with global best practice.