Project Background

The Government of Liberia strongly believes that its fight in reducing poverty can not be achieved in the absent of providing for its citizens safe drinking water and adequate human waste collection and disposal. The government fully understands the linkages between poverty and water and sanitation. Lack of safe drinking water and sanitation result to: water and sanitation diseases, which cause more than 40% of the death in the country. Reduces life expectancy, reduces school attendance, and reduces income earning potential of family. For the next three years, the government wishes to increase access to safe drinking and adequate human waste collection and disposal by 25% in the country. The baseline presently is 25% for water and 15% for sanitation. The first step in this direction is the rehabilitation of the facilities in urban cities starting with Monrovia, which presently host 45% of the population of the country. The government will need all the assistance in achieving this goal.

Project Goals

 Assess White Plains Water Treatment Plant and 36” finished water transmission main to determine extent of damage.
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 Recommend interim measures that can be implemented in a few months to increase water supply to Monrovia and improve reliability of current facilities.

 Design detailed rehabilitation works to restore the plant and transmission main to (a) 50% their pre-war capacities and (b) 100% pre-war capacities.

 Assist the Government of Liberia with securing a qualified contractor to construct the accepted designed rehabilitation works based on the fund available.

Consultant

 The Government of Liberia has engaged the services of AB&H, A Donohue Group, formally Alvord, Burdick & Howson Engineers (AB&H) for the engineering works (assessment, redesign and supervision).

 The firm is a Chicago-based engineering firm with more than 100 years of engineering experience and was first engaged by the Liberian Government in early 1950s for engineering services (studies, design and supervision) for Drinking Water and collection of domestic waste). And since then, the firm has been providing engineering services for the government in water and sewer services. has been involved in Liberia since the 1950s.

Project Team

 The project is being managed from the firm’s Chicago office by William G. Nyanue, a Liberian national with more than 25 years of engineering experience, 16 of which have been with AB&H, A Donohue Group. Mr. Nyanue is a Hydraulic Engineer and served as Manager of Planning and Development at the LWSC before the Liberian civil war. He and two other engineers N. Hun-Bu Tulay and Reginald Caphart) sponsored by the LWSC assisted in the supervision of the expansion of the White Plains Water Treatment Plant in 1982. Engineer Tulay is now the Managing Director of the LWSC and Engineer Caphart is a Structural Engineer with the City of New York, America.

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