After three days of sewage overflowing at her property, Karen van der Westhuizen finally breathed a sigh of relief following the re-occurrence of a blockage.
This comes after they noticed the overflow on the evening of July 8.
As the problem deteriorated, her property was filled with sewage, which flowed on their street.
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@albertonrecord After three days of sewage overflowing at her property, Karen van der Westhuizen finally breathed a sigh of relief following the re-occurrence of a blockage.
“I phoned the council, and they gave me a reference number. We waited the whole day and the next. The next day, I phoned again and told them my backyard was covered in sewage and my dogs couldn’t run there. I phoned again and was told they would escalate the call. As soon as the Alberton Record publication got involved, they jumped,” explained Van der Westhuizen.
After resolving the problem, she said someone from the city assured her they would send somebody to clean her yard, but nothing has happened since.
Van der Westhuizen, who has lived in the area for 53 years, said her property had never been like this.
“I think the infrastructure is unsuitable and can’t handle the capacity for the number of townhouses, flats and extra people. They weren’t looking at it from the beginning,” she said.
Ekurhuleni spokesperson Zweli Dlamini confirmed that the complaint was escalated to the city’s team for urgent intervention.
“However, the re-occurrence of blockage is caused by fat being discharged into the sewer pipeline. The sewer blockage is cleared, and we appeal to the public to abstain from depositing foreign objects in the drainage systems,” Dlamini said.
