Sewerage spills into Lonehill resident’s garden

A resident in Lonehill has suffered from a terrible stench and extensive pollution after a manhole carrying sewerage overflowed in his yard.

Lonehill resident Brian Smith has struggled after the recent storm, as water flowing from alleged illegal connections to the sewerage line by new complex developments upstream that were supposed to be connected to a nearby storm water drain.

As a result the human waste flowing through the sewerage line had overflowed through a manhole in his garden, polluting his entire back yard.

“We know our back garden will be flooded with the neighborhood’s sewerage when we are woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of our toilets bubbling” stated Smith, who has struggled with an unbearable smell and awful sight of the neighborhood’s disintegrated sanitary towels, toilet paper and human waste spread across his back garden.

Johannesburg Water has investigated the incident at Smith’s home and have not made a statement as of yet.

Ward councillor for ward 106, Steven Moore, has stated “Long term I’m preparing a petition to ask that the City spends the hundreds of millions it needs to spend to upgrade our water and sewerage reticulation system. That is the only way we’ll avoid these problems”.