Various residents have now decided to put their houses on the market as they cannot bear to live with the stench of the sewage in their backyards any longer.
The sewage, which pools in the open field between Dersley and Eastvale, along Cloverfield Road, has proven too much for the residents to handle.
The sewage has been flooding into this field for many years.
It was previously reported how members from the Dersley Community Association (DCA) organised a protest about the sewage.
This received the attention of the Ekurhuleni Metro and repairs took place at the site.
Marie Buchner, from the DCA, says a few weeks after this, another manhole just a few metres from the first problematic one, overflowed and raw sewage spilled again and made a new ‘dam’ in the field.
“Apparently a vehicle got stuck in the sewage last week,” she says.
Anton Deysel, head of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality Water and Sanitation Department, met with the protesting crowd at the site on August 15 and reportedly told the residents they will close the gravel road leading into the field in an attempt to restrict access to the field.”He told us they will close the road, but it’s still open,” Buchner concludes.
The Addie is awaiting comment from the metro.
