Client: – Rift Valley Water Services Board. Location: – Baringo County Surface Area: – 235km with diameters ranging from 400mm to 50mm Year Completed: – 2014 Value: – Kshs. 5.5 Billion
The Sh5.5 billion water project marks the accomplishments of one of the Millenium Development Goals of increasing water supply in the country and is the largest project undertaken in the Rift Valley region.
The 45 metres high dam with a capacity of of 12 million cubic metres of water is set to benefit over 600,000 people through various projects that include piped water supply, fishing, irrigation and energy production.
Preliminary and Final Engineering Designs, Contract Documents, Environmental Impact Assessment and Resettlement Action Plan, ToR for Construction Supervision
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Construction of Chemususu Dam Water Supply distribution Project. The project will serve about 300,000 people and livestock in Eldama Ravine and parts of Mbogotio, Rongai districts and Baringo county.
The proposed project components comprise:
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[li]Construction of Raw Water Gravity Main of length 0.7km and 500mm diameter[/li][li]Construction of new Water Treatment Works of capacity 35,000 m3/day[/li][li]Rehabilitation of the existing Water Treatment Works of capacity 6,000 m3/ day[/li][li]Construction of Clear Water Gravity Main of length 16.4km and diameter 500mm[/li][li]Construction of Water Distribution Networks, total length 235km with diameters ranging from 400mm to 50mm[/li][li]Construction of 25No. Storage Reservoirs with capacities ranging from 5.000 m2 to 200 m3.[/li][/ul]
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That article iko na challenges when it comes to communication. Anywhere wanaongea kuhusu “MAINS” they are talking about supply pipes. @ 500mm pipe is quite big
[ATTACH=full]151748[/ATTACH] @Fala 12 kuja kiasi, huyu ndiye ame specialize mambo ya maji.
@Bwana Spear, there’s something wrong with gava projects nowadays. A simple, non-hydro dam costing 6 billion? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaai bana, what is happening nowadays? I mean Kibaki built the 8-lane, 40km Thika Highway with just 40 billion. The Japanese have built Ngong Road (about 10kms, mostly five/six lane) with just about Sh2 billion.
But hutu tu-dams twa serikali tunacost 4,5,6,9 billion? Na mostly ni earth?
Wameleza hapo chini, reservoir wamesema tu volume yake 12million cubic meters ama 12,000,000,000 liters. Hio surface area(though hio jina imebadilisha maaana, ingekuwa service area) ni total length ya pipes zenye zitawekwa za distribution.
Hio Raw water main ni yenye italeta maji kutoka kwa dam hadi kwa treatment plant. Hio Clear water mains ya dia 500mm ni yenye itatoa maji kwa treatment plant hadi mahali kuna offtake ama branch ya kwaza. Then hizo distribution za dia 400-50 zinaanza hapo.
Many of these dam projects had started in the 80’s then stopped after the west stopped aid to the moi government, so when kibaki tookover design work had to start afresh
The history of the the Dam shows it was designed by Suerace Co. from France over 20 years ago, in 2008 the designs were reviewed.
We had a lot of projects that were started that became white elephants and othera that were never fully implemented. Some of these projects if better refined can be beneficial to the communities. It appears this was one of the stalled projects which were given a new lease of life, to fit the required needs.
White elephant projects are always a haven for corruption. The only consolation is that the project is completed and will benefit 1000s of people.