- The management of the waterfalls claims that a recent social media video demonstrating discolored water coming from the falls was caused by a heavy downpour that caused the Pumpum River, the main source of water, to overflow its banks and carry debris and sediments from a road construction into the waterfalls.
- Franklin Owusu, the site manager of the Kintampo Waterfalls, noted that as long as it continues to rain in the area, all of the dirt is washed into the cascade.
- He claimed that after a rain, the water gets clean once more and that if it doesn’t rain for a while, clean water can be seen.
- He said there was adequate security in place to guard against illegal mining in the area.
- “Almost all the pathways are rocks, so we don’t have any deep water to encourage people to come and mine in the water, it is a shallow water,” he said.
- He said the 10km journey towards the falls have trees around it, and the Forestry Division patrols it constantly.
- The management of the waterfalls claims that a recent social media video demonstrating discolored water coming from the falls was caused by a heavy downpour that caused the Pumpum River, the main source of water, to overflow its banks and carry debris and sediments from a road construction into the waterfalls.
- Franklin Owusu, the site manager of the Kintampo Waterfalls, noted that as long as it continues to rain in the area, all of the dirt is washed into the cascade.
- He claimed that after a rain, the water gets clean once more and that if it doesn’t rain for a while, clean water can be seen.
- He said there was adequate security in place to guard against illegal mining in the area.
- “Almost all the pathways are rocks, so we don’t have any deep water to encourage people to come and mine in the water, it is a shallow water,” he said.
- He said the 10km journey towards the falls have trees around it, and the Forestry Division patrols it constantly.