Assessment of Poor Drainage System in Building within Low Land Areas.

Abstract

Consequent upon poor drainage system urban environment in Nigeria are facing a lot of problems. The study is hinged on investigating the causes of drainage system and immediate causes of poor drainage system. Infrastructural and environmental problems caused by the drainage systems and measures of maintaining the associated problems in the area under study. Akure the capital of Ondo state in Nigeria is a fast growing city in terms of infrastructural development which involves concretizing and construction of the city land surfaces thus, leading to flooding. The finding reveals that the drainage system in some low land areas in Akure were not well designed due to low level of technical know-how, the disposal of debris into drainage have added adversely to the problem of flood in the study area; in Akure metropolis, flooding being observed to be the principal consequence of poor drainage systems. Also, the tested study revealed that poor drainage systems were actually the main cause of incessant flooding, destruction of environment infrastructural facilities, loss of lives and properties in the study area: Akure metropolis.

Keywords: Drainage, Low land, Floods, Residential, Impact