Local councillor pleads with residents to refrain from putting objects in the drainage system
WAVERLY – The blockage resulted in the spillage of human waste on the road surface and caused the unbearable smell, posing health hazards to residents and road users.
Following days of battling to remove an object that has blocked a sewer pipe in Athol Street in Waverley, the Joburg Water technical team has finally managed to remove a 30cm brick that was causing the blockage.
The blockage resulted in the spillage of human waste on the road surface and caused an unbearable smell, posing health hazards to residents and road users.
It took Joburg Water and their contractors two days to remove a giant brick that has blocked the drainage system.
“Johannesburg Water and its contractors have successfully sucked out a brick of about 30cm x 20cm that was blocking the flowing of sewage. The sewage is now flowing in the system as designed. They needed to use bigger machines to suck out the object and that is why it took them some time to solve the problem,” Ward 74 councillor David Fisher said.
“As the ward councillor, I would like to thank Joburg Water and their contractors for diligently pursuing this issue and finally resolving it.
” I appeal to residents not to place objects into the drainage system. This rock had to have been placed in the sewerage system by a person and this has cost residents of Johannesburg a lot of money.”
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