Water leakage distress residents
LINKSFIELD - A property owner in Club Street was concerned with the city’s failure to fix what the family believed to be a broken sewerage pipe outside their property.
A property owner in Club Street, Simon Read is concerned with the city council’s failure to fix what he believed to be a broken sewerage pipe outside his property.
The leak coming from a concrete manhole is situated on a public pedestrian pavement.
Read believed that the leak could be sewage because the water seeping from it has developed a green algae film. Read and his wife, Bridgette lodged their complaint some months ago, but the matter was still unresolved. Read said, “Johannesburg Water attended to the matter twice. In both instances the issue had not been resolved and was attributed to groundwater. I’m no expert in this area, but after months with little rain, on a hill, around a manhole cover, I find it hard to believe that this isolated area is not somehow related to a broken pipe of some sort.”
Read added that he also spoke to a Johannesburg Water official who was unable to identify any problem, and he was told that the entity would pass on the matter to the Johannesburg Roads Agency.
He said, “Since raising this issue again on the 20 August we have had no contact from the Johannesburg Roads Agency. The issue outside our property continues to deteriorate, is inconvenient for us and our neighbours and I believe it presents a health hazard to passersby. We really just want to stop the situation from getting worse.”
Ward 72 councillor Steven Kruger said it was possible that it was groundwater. Kruger said, “There is a problem with groundwater throughout Ward 72. “From my understanding there is a layer of impervious rock in the area.”
Kruger promised to put in a request for testing of the levels of chemicals of the leaking water, as pH levels could determine if the water was groundwater or piped water.
