Motorists driving in Carletonville had to concentrate on their extreme driving skills due to the amount of water damming up in some places this week.

A ward councillor, Carlos Rebelo, had been complaining for years about water damming up at the intersection where Coronation Street meets Dolomite Drive.

Rainwater cannot flow away from the road surface at this crossing because the tall grass and bushes on the sides of the road dam it up.

During the past weeks, the busy Dolomite Drive has become a huge problem by itself as well.

Motorists who drive up or down this busy street need to be extremely careful as so much water dammed in parts of this street that it became almost too deep to drive through.

People driving in Dolomite Street near Zinnia Street and Moraea Street had to drive very slowly to not flood their vehicles in the deep water that dammed up after the good rain on Monday morning.

Just after 11:00, so much water had dammed up that several drivers rather reversed than tried to drive through. One bakkie picked up engine problems while driving through the water. It blew out a cloud of white smoke and the driver had to get out into the water to try to determine what had happened.

Water damming up to such an extent had not been a problem in Dolomite Street in the past and is most probably the result of blocked stormwater drains in addition to tall grasses and bushes on the sidewalks.

The municipality said that they are aware of the problems and that these will be attended to.