GLENWOOD resident Daniel Sheldon says he has a broken sewerage line at the bottom of his property which he has been reporting to the eThekwini Municipality since March, but to no avail.

Sheldon says that the broken sewerage line is forming a hole that starts at the bottom of his property and runs under his boundary wall and into the public park behind his home. “It is forming a hole under my boundary wall and into the public park behind my house. I have reported it every month, sometimes twice a month, and I just get the stock response that the matter has been escalated, then I receive nothing further,” said Sheldon.

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“The first time I reported it, in March, within a day, they’d sent plumbers around who inspected it but said they were the jetting team, not the repair team – who were clearly needed for the job. Since then, nothing. I have taken it up with Sakhile Mngadi, my local ward councillor and emailed to him the details and pictures of the hole forming in May (it went to his spam) and again in July – also to no effect,” said the Glenwood resident.

Sheldon says that the issue is bigger than his broken sewerage line. “I know there is a broader issue with the sewerage department in Durban, and there is another broken sewerage line on my road somewhere since November of last year with the same problem. The normal water-supply-line team are quite quick to respond to burst mains, but I can’t fathom how an entire department is just absent with no recourse. It’s an infrastructural issue for the pipe’s maintenance, and the safety of my wall and a public health issue,” said Sheldon.

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