A US$18 million agreement for the construction of the major pipeline responsible to supply pipe-bone water to over one million customers in Monrovia and its environs has been signed between the Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation and the Millennium Challenge Account Liberia (MCA-L),
This agreement was signed in Monrovia on Wednesday by Mr. Monie R. Captan, Chief Executive Officer of the MCA-L and the Management of the Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation (LWSC), Mr. Duannah A. Kamara
Mr. Captan outlined the significant intervention the rehabilitation of the pipeline would have on the country’s water supply.
“Now with this pipeline in place, you will basically open the flow of water additionally, because of the growth in population and that number of people water and sewer has to serve,” Mr. Captan said.
“We have decided to install a bigger pipeline than the original one that was there. The original one was 900mm in diameter which will be replaced by a 1,200mm – so, its give a bigger one in capacity.”
The objective of the Raw Water Pipeline Project is to replace the damaged 36-inch diameter pipeline from the dam at the Mt. Coffee Hydropower Plant (MCHPP) to the White Plains Water Treatment Plant (WTP).
Since the pipeline was destroyed during the civil war in the 1990s during the Civil war, the LWSC has been pumping water from the St. Paul River by means of a river intake and pump station at the WTP.
A new 48-inch diameter pipeline will be constructed for water to reach the WTP via gravity flow, which will replace the need for river intake, reduce the cost for electricity associated with use of a pump station, and eliminate salt-water intrusion at the WTP caused by river intake during the dry season that results in poor water quality, a release from the MCA-L said.
The US$18 million proposed pipeline is approximately 3.1 miles long and generally follows the original alignment of the pipeline with small deviations.
The construction of the new pipeline will result in consistent and quality water supply to the nearly one million residents of Monrovia.