Blocked drains symptomatic of bigger problem
Blocked drains are a symptom of a far greater cancer eating away at our town - prostitutes soliciting all along Kingsway in the Doonside area, vacant office blocks being used for residential purposes, human waste being dumped into the river.
EDITOR – After last week’s light rain, this is what I find in the Toti CBD – flooding caused by blocked storm drains outside Lagoon Centre, the old KFC and where the road goes under the N2.
I shudder to think what the situation would be like if it had been heavy rain.
This ongoing blocking of drains is caused by the filth and litter that we find all over our town, coupled with the shocking lack of ongoing maintenance. Exactly why do we pay rates and what does our municipality actually do?
This situation brings to mind the flash floods we had in June about 8 years ago, which caused massive washaways in Doonside and Athlone Park. In this instance, residents advised the municipality on numerous occasions that storm water drains were blocked and that if nothing was done about it, a disaster was pending. Likewise with the Toti lagoon undermining the railway line.
Obviously, as is typical under the new rule we find ourselves in post-apartheid South Africa, nothing was done until calamity struck. The cost of repairs was astronomical. It could have been avoided, but I believe this is how the powers work – rather than be pre-emptive in approach, wait for it to break, then fix it at a massive cost where a little ‘tenderpreneuring’ is the order of the day and voila, a certain few find they are rich beyond measure. All at the cost of the legitimate taxpayer.
Blocked drains are a symptom of a far greater cancer eating away at our town – prostitutes soliciting all along Kingsway in the Doonside area, vacant office blocks being used for residential purposes, human waste being dumped into the river.
I have lived in Toti for over 50 years and it saddens me to see what this once proud and beautiful seaside resort has degenerated into.
DISGUSTED
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