KPESHIE LAGOON

Dirt in the lagoon

Besides the korle lagoon and Laa Sea, the next water body i will be talking about is the Kpeshie lagoon. Literally, the kpeshie lagoon is located in Laa-Teshie road which is in Ghana on the continent of Africa. The lagoon is located at the latitude and longitude coordinated of 5.56667 and -133333. The kpeshie drainage basin covers a relatively small catchment area of 110km2. The lagoon is bounded on the east by the Military Academy at Teshie on the north by a line south of madina and Ajirignano. It cut across the eastern part of Accra, Ridge, Cantonment, Laa, Osu and Burma camp areas. Notably the Streams in the catchment generally flow north to south, emptying directly into the principal outlet to the sea at kpeshie lagoon.

Kpeshie lagoon

For quiet sometime now, an extensive portion of the lagoon has been filled with garbage and waste materials rendering the lagoon with all kinds of waste items such as plastics, canny food items which has made it impossible for the lagoon to produce.

Overview of the lagoon

As at now, due to the deplorable state of the lagoon it will be of great benefit to the country if government officials or media personnel’s will create awareness of potential benefits Ghana can derive from the lagoon in terms of its economic, social, hydrological and ecological if the lagoon is kept clean.