The Lagos State Government has said that it is building a retention pond to assist in containing flooding in the State.
The Commissioner for the Environment, Dr Babatunde Samuel Adejare disclosed this during the sensitization programme for the 2017 Water Technology and Environmental Control Exhibition and Conference (WATEC) held at Renaissance Hotel, GRA Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest on Monday.
Adejare said that a retention pond was currently being built at Sangotedo area of Lagos State as a form of rainfall harvesting to serve as a reservoir for storm water at the peak of the rainy season for onward release into the Okota River after the rains subsided.
Adejare, who was one of the respondents at the interview session of the sensitization programme, explained that this retention pond was essential as Lagos, in recent times had been experiencing…
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