‘Stop dumping in our rivers’
If you drive past there in the evening, you can smell the stench coming off the river.
Stop dumping refuse and human waste into Toti’s rivers.
That’s the plea from residents and Amanzimtoti Country Club (ACC) after tankers were spotted dumping human waste into the river in the vicinity of Amanzimtoti SPCA and a bakkie was photographed emptying portable toilets at the River Gardens drift.
An Isipingo resident, who did not wish to be named, oftens spots the trucks disposing their loads by the Nyathi garden site when he transports his daughter to school in the morning.
“This is an ongoing problem,” he said. “I’ve seen them between 6.30am and 7.15am. It is absolute nonsense. These companies have received contracts and tenders to dispose of the waste properly, but they just look for the nearest place. It is ridiculous.
This problem really needs to be sorted out. They are killing all our fish in the river.
If you drive past there in the evening, you can smell the stench coming off the river. It is not nice.”
He informed the chairman of ACC, Dave Richardson of his sightings, who said he himself has spotted tankers in the vicinity in broad daylight while playing golf.
“I even saw someone dumping bags of refuse into the river before,” he said in disgust.
“Other golfers have informed me they too have seen tankers there while playing golf.”
On Wednesday morning, 10 June, Dave confronted a tanker with an NPN registration and no markings that was spotted at the Nyathi Garden Site. “When I asked him what he was doing, the driver said he was loading fresh water from the river.”
A Toti resident, who did not wish to be named, photographed a bakkie they suspected was dumping waste from portable toilets into the Toti River at the drift on Sunday, 21 June. Although a phone number was on the side of the toilets, it unfortunately was not legible in the photographs.
If you have any further information on this, email earlb@dbn.caxton.co.za
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