Effluent floods Burlington family’s garden and home
A Burlington family are fighting a losing battle against effluent in their yard and home following a blockage in the drains for over a week.
NINE people, who share a communal bathroom in Burlington, are being forced to return to the bucket system for their toilet needs following a problem with the sewers which has been ongoing for over a week.
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Muriel Mlobeli, who lives with her brother, her children and those of her late sister, in Burlington contacted the Queensburgh News when all her attempts to get the municipality to attend to the problem seemed to be of no use.
“We have a problem of sewage for a week now. We reported it to the municipality, but they just promised that they are coming,” she said on Sunday, 1 November.
“Everything is coming out now, even the drains are blocked now,” she said the next day when contacted to see if the fault had been repaired.
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Municipality
There have been many similar sewage and pipe bursts in the greater Queensburgh area, including leaks in Hillary and problems with high levels of e.coli in the uMbilo River.
In the past the City has said it is lacking capacity to deal with all the complaints it receives daily, however, in this instance the City had not replied to a request for comment at the time of publication.
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Councillor
Ward councillor the the area, which falls into Ward 65 of eThekwini, Samantha Windvogel contacted the Queensburgh News about the family’s plight.
“I was promised by the city manager for water and sanitation that this was supposed to have been fixed on Monday,” said Windvogel.
“The service delivery in this city is at an all time low, and people are very frustrated,” she sighed adding that she was going to contact the City and apply pressure since the matter was not being written about in the media.
“People don’t really know who to blame and many times they think it is up the councillors,” she said.
“However, we are limited in terms of what we can get done.”
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