The Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu-led Lagos State Government has alerted residents on the rise of sea water level resulting in the inability of the lagoon to discharge water into the ocean, thereby causing backflow into the drainage channels.
The state Commissioner for
the Environment and Water Resources, Tunji Bello, assured that the state government officials are already working on different measures that would allow easy flow of water in the affected areas.
Bello added that the state Government is also in talks with the officials of the Ogun Osun River Basin Authority which is releasing water to do so gradually.
He explained that the rise in sea level has contributed to current flooding in many parts of Ikoyi, Victoria Island, Dolphin and Oworoshoki because the lagoon could no longer discharge, which he said, was causing back flow into drainage outlets.
The commissioner said the Ogun-Osun River Basin Authority could no longer hold the Oyan dam hence has been releasing its water causing rise in Ogun River and this has affected low line areas like Isheri North and Magodo and up to Owode Onirin.
Bello said until the ocean level goes down, the lagoon could not discharge water into the ocean which would in effect cause back flow into all the drainage outlets in the state.
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