The Tono Irrigation dam in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality of the Upper East region, which was constructed in the early 1990s is completely full.
The Kassena-Nankana Municipal Chief Executive, Mr. Williams Aduum, says the Tono Irrigation Dam is currently spilling by itself contributing to the flooding situation in the area.
Meanwhile, the Acting Deputy Chief Executive of Engineering at the Ghana Irrigation Development Authority, Mr. Stephen Maclean says the flooding of some communities in Northern Ghana is not a result of the spillage of the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso as claimed but, rather the filling up of rivers around the Volta river at this time of the year, that is during the raining season.
Mr. Maclean suggested the damming of these rivers to prevent the flooding.
In a related development, the Deputy Director of NADMO In-charge of Operations, Mr. Abu Ramadan, who has been in the Upper East Region since the spillage of the Bagre Dam says his outfit, is working with other state agencies about the possibility of building mini dams on the White Volta to store excess water spilled from the Bagre dam.
He says the mini dams will then become irrigation channels for agricultural purposes.
The National Disaster Management Organization, NADMO and the Ghana National Fire Service have begun draining water from thirty- three wells which have become contaminated following floods in the Upper West Regional capital, Wa.
The exercise is to prevent possible outbreak of diseases such as cholera and diarrhoea.
