Rehabilitation works on Sh1.3billion Dandora sewerage plant in Nairobi County has commenced. Eng. Kitheko Mutonga, Acting Manager Sewerage and Sanitation Works Development from the Athi Water Works announced the start and said the expansion of the sewerage treatment plant will boost the existing water sewerage ponds to serve the high population of Nairobi County.
The treatment plant is situated in Ruai. The project, under the Nairobi Water Sewerage project will include the construction of seven ponds of 20,000 cubic metres capacity valued at Sh I billion and the erection of a perimeter wall fence on the 4,000 acres of land at a cost of Sh300million.
Scope of work
Eng. Kitheko Mutonga affirmed that Athi Works has already received the funds from the government for the project. He also announced that the construction works of the raw and treated water pipeline project along Thika Dam to Kigoro water treatment plant to Gigiri tanks on a 55 km stretch approximated at a cost of Sh 8.05 billion will commence on Monday, August 16th this year.
In Nairobi County, the construction works on the 3.5 km stretch will start from Regis School in Runda to Githogoro and end at Gigiri tanks. The pipeline will be getting water from Ndakaini dam in Murangโa and transmit it to Nairobi from the Northern collector tunnel from a 1.2 diameter steel pipe to Gigiri tanks, adding that a 22 km stretch from Ndakaini to Ngethu in Kiambu County has already been completed.
โThere is an existing pipeline from Ngethu in Gatundu North that goes to Runda-Githogoro to Gigiri tanks and we are adding an extra pipeline from Ndakaini dam to Gigiri for bulk water transmission,โ said the engineer.
