The Merafong City Local Municipality is still turning a blind eye to the sewerage problems in Welverdiend and the pollution that occurs as a result of this.
This week waste was streaming from two places at the bottom of Welverdiend.
“Sewage water running from manhole in 25th Avenue again,” a resident of this part of the town, Vince Smith, complained.
Meanwhile, just a street down, even more sewage was streaming from a manhole next to 26th Avenue.
Smith’s father, Russell, made the Herald aware of this leak in January this year and the newspaper has checked on it at least once a month.
Except for the foul smell, the sewage also leaks directly into the Wonderfonteinspruit.
By August 5 so much waste was leaking from the manhole that it split up into several smaller streams about 15 metres further.
These streams of sewage flowed into the river in various places.
Merafong answered the many complaints by either claiming that they attended to the problem, but it sprung up again, or that there was nothing they could do for now.
“A cable was stolen at the pump station leading to no pumping. Therefore, the cable will be replaced as soon as possible,” the municipality’s Marketing and Communications Manager, Temba Fezani, already said on July 9.
The municipality did not answer to further questions about the ongoing pollution this week.
Meanwhile, some residents of Welverdiend have noted that their problems will, most probably, get worse as more houses are being built in the area, despite the fact that the sewerage infrastructure is not being upgraded.
