The government of Kenya just signed the first contract with the British construction company that has been given the contract for the High Grand Falls Dam, a project that would cost billions and was started ten years ago. A camp can now be established by the project contractor in the counties of Tharaka and Kitui, where the construction project is located, thanks to a contract that was signed between the National Irrigation Authority and the GBM engineering business.
The assigned contractor has been given six months to complete ground mapping and update all technical and social data in order to determine the total number of households that will be influenced during the execution of the High Grand Falls Dam project work.
For the duration of the project, the contractor GBM will be fully responsible for planning, procuring, building, and running the High Grand Falls project as a whole. This merely demonstrates that the Kenyan government will make no financial contribution to the Public Private Partnership.
About Ksh425 billion is anticipated to be spent on the High Grand Falls Dam project. The Aswan Dam on the Nile will remain Africa’s greatest freshwater dam, but the new project will be larger. Given that it would cost more than the Standard Gauge Railway building project, the dam will be the Kenyan governments largest-ever undertaking.
The dam will be able to supply approximately 5600 million cubic metres of water, which will be used to irrigate 400,000 hectares of land. Additionally, it will be capable of producing about 1,000MW of power.
The High Grand Falls Dam will also serve the purposes of controlling flooding, promoting ecotourism, fostering aquaculture, and generally enhancing the standard of living in the area where it is located and across the entire nation.
