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Blessings Chidakwa Municipal Correspondent
Perennial sewer pipe bursts in Chitungwiza are expected to end soon as the local authority is embarking on a US$1 million project to upgrade the town’s sewer network.
Rivulets of raw sewage from burst pipes have now become a permanent feature in the town.
Chitungwiza received the funds from the African Development Bank, through Zimfund, to assist in the rehabilitation of its sewerage infrastructure.
The assistance is going to address the municipality’s perennial outfall and trunk sewer hotspots such as Hombarume Road, Rufaro and Dumukwa junction, Ruzvidzo and Chiratidzo roads, PaGomba, Zengeza and Seke areas.
The money will go towards the replacement, upgrading and re-routing of the outfall sewer along the new Chitungwiza highway and the and upgrading of trunk sewers in Seke.
Chitungwiza mayor councillor Lovemore Maiko said all was set for the project to commence.
“This month will be commencing the waste water management project using the US$1 million.
“The money is budgeted for the usual sewer hotspot areas. We will be re-routing some of the lines.”
Chitungwiza Progressive Residents Association secretary general Mr Gift Kurupati welcomed the move saying: “We implore council to implement this project religiously and it is our hope that it will go a long way to mitigate the perennial sewage problem,” he said.
Chitungwiza is a beneficiary of ZimFund’s Urgent Water Supply and Sanitation Rehabilitation Project (UWSSRP) Phase I and Phase II.
Under the first phase of UWSSRP, the intervention includes rehabilitation of Zengeza’s Conventional Sewage Treatment Works that has a capacity of 35 million litres a day which saw four sets of sewage treatment ponds and five trickling filters being installed.
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