RESIDENTS are outraged by the stink caused by the burst sewerage pipe at Sunny Brae Park, on the corner of Cullum Road and Sunny Brae Drive in Westville.
Since the April floods, according to residents in the area, ‘disgusting sewer water’ has been streaming across residents’ properties and gushing on the street, forcing people to walk across this mess.
“We cannot live like this – we are taxpayers, and we have rights!” said resident Logan Govender.
According to another resident, Suzanne Dos Santos Niz, they have been living with this stench for the past two months, and residents fear for their health as well as the health of their pets.
“The sewage smell is constantly in the air. It is flowing across residents‘ properties, and it is being brought into our homes due to residents being forced to drive through the disgusting water that stretches across our road.”
The eThekwini Municipality’s spokesperson Msawakhe Mayisela said in response: “It should be noted that the City will never win the war against clogging of manholes unless residents change their behaviour. Over 70% of manholes that are clogged are because of alien objects disposed of in our systems, and this incident is no exception. We attend to such leaks on numerous occasions, and as soon we turn our back, we go back to square one. We are therefore appealing to residents to refrain from using newspapers in their toilets and to stop the disposal of items such as tampons, condoms, diapers and oil in our system. These are all the things that our teams are always retrieving when attending to clogged manholes. The community itself must do their part or this will continue to be a moving target for the City. A team was sent to investigate and is attending to the matter.”
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