The overwhelming smell of raw sewage met Grocott's Mail reporters investigating De Villiers Close residents' complaints that the municipality hasn't come to fix leaking outlets in the area.
The overwhelming smell of raw sewage met Grocott's Mail reporters investigating De Villiers Close residents' complaints that the municipality hasn't come to fix leaking outlets in the area.
Residents said human waste leaking from municipal inspection traps into the Kowie River has become unbearable in the past month, but their pleas for help go unnoticed by the municipality.
On Friday morning our reporters saw that the traps were overgrown with vegetation and it was clear that no one had been there for months.
The inspection site gate cannot even close because plants have taken over and it has become an informal dumping site.
A resident in the area who asked not to be named wrote two letters to Director of Technical and Infrastructure Services Thembinkosi Myalato in the last fortnight, telling him that no one from the municipality had come to fix the problem.
“This situation is even worse and I appeal to you to do a site inspection and resolve this matter,” the second letter read.
It also highlights sewage flowing from pipes of a hardware store and into the river near the Queen Street taxi rank.
Makana municipal spokesperson Mncedisi Boma had not responded to enquiries sent to him about the sewage at the time of going to press.
