{"id":6434,"date":"2019-11-07T08:53:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T05:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6434"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:40","slug":"fears-of-disaster-as-walls-of-dam-in-tharaka-nithi-crack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/07\/fears-of-disaster-as-walls-of-dam-in-tharaka-nithi-crack\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears Of Disaster As Walls Of Dam In Tharaka-Nithi Crack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Daily\nNation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents\nof Kanthanje village in Igambang\u2019ombe, Tharaka-Nithi County are living in fear\nof a possible bursting of a nearby earth dam that is in a \u201cdeplorable state\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The walls\nof the 20,000 cubic meters dam that was built at a cost of Sh16 million to\nirrigate over 70 hectares and benefit at least 200 families have several cracks\nand with the ongoing heavy downpour, there are fears they could burst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few\nmeters from the dam are several homesteads, Kanthanje Primary School, Kanthanje\nSecondary School and Kanthanje Dispensary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Not Compacted <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According\nto the residents, the walls of the dam were never compacted during its\nconstruction a few months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They added that that the dam\u2019s spillway has been directed towards their homesteads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/counties\/tharaka-nithi\/Locals-in-fear-as-dam-walls-crack\/3370192-5339550-6ffhftz\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation Residents of Kanthanje village in Igambang\u2019ombe, Tharaka-Nithi County are living in fear of a possible bursting of a nearby earth dam that is in a \u201cdeplorable state\u201d.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}