Pirates Tennis Club battles with council’s blocked sewerage pipe
The Pirates Tennis Club is desperate for a permanent solution to blocked sewerage on the Spruit 50m from its boarder which is affecting the club’s sanitation system.
For two years, the Pirates Tennis Club has been battling with a blocked sewerage pipe.
The club has a demarcation fence and 50m from that fence is the Spruit River which is council property. Committee member of the club Brent Pinkney said there was a sewerage line that ran along the Spruit and this has been blocking up for about two years causing a revolting odour and polluting the river.
He said they reported the issue to Environmental Health who then assigned Johannesburg Water to resolve the issue. Pinkney said that earlier this year, a team from Joburg Water came to inspect the site. “The team’s foreman told me that that pipe is a non-standard pipe which is too narrow and also very old.
“All of our toilets and showers also drain into the pipe and they are also now blocked too. The sewage has damaged the roots of the trees and some are falling into the Spruit,” Pinkney said.
He added they had contacted Joburg Water on numerous occasions and a team had come to try to unblock the pipe. “They do bring their truck with the hydraulic jack and clean it out but it lasts for two days and then blocks up again.”
Pinkney acknowledged Joburg Water’s efforts but said much more needed to be done in terms of providing a permanent solution.
Another committee member Terri Pautz added that they were not legally allowed to fix the problem themselves without getting authorisation from the City.
Johannesburg Water was contacted and spokesperson Nolwazi Dhlamini asked for a reference number to follow up with the depot regarding the issue.
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