A Witfield resident has poured out his disappointment with the Ekurhuleni metro’s water department for its failure to fix a major six-year-old water leak outside his property in Wilson Street.
This is despite his many complaints.
John Mellitchey claims that he first noticed the leaking fire hydrant about six years ago, and has since then been sending emails to the department requesting that the hydrant, which has been gushing water, be repaired.
The Advertiser is in possession of an email thread which shows a conversation between Mellitchey and a municipal official about the damaged hydrant.
When the Advertiser visited the site on Monday morning, February 19, it was found that the pipeline continued to waste kilolitres of clean water.
No comment had been received from the metro at the time of publication.
