“Northmead Resident” writes:
After more than 30 years my tap in the front garden was hard to close and kept on dripping water.
I asked my neighbour if he could change the washer as I could not close the tap again.
He came and we discovered a torn washer with a small stone were the cause of the problem.
I would like to know how can a stone, whatever size, get into the water system?
Did a load of concrete get into the current Northmead water tower?
These stones have appeared three times within a week.
The third time, I came around the corner of the house from the backyard and the water was running at full speed.
My neighbour came again to help and turned the water off at the meter.
I now have a very high water and sewerage account (yet I do not have running water to the house).
https://www.citizen.co.za/benoni-city-times/394088/benoni-precinct-empd-officer-found-guilty-of-murder/
Now for me, an 82-year-old lady, to get water I have to go with pliers and bucket and have to switch the meter on then turn it off again, which means I have to go in and out the gate.
Water has been stopped at this tap as the pipes going to the house have been blocked due to a few burst pipes.
Also, I don’t know if it is the vagrants who patrol the neighbourhood and jump over the wall to have water that left the tap running the last time.
If it was one of them I hope they get sick.
I am a pensioner and do not have the resources to have the problem fixed – I live off a Sassa pension only.
