Klippoortje residents are sick and tired of watching water go to waste and dodging sinkholes.
Helen Parker, a resident of Sproule Lane, brought the matter to the GCN’s attention saying that residents have been experiencing ongoing problems with water leaking in Parkhill Road and Sproule Lane for a number of months.
“Work has been carried out on several occasions in Sproule Lane when water seepage from underground has occurred,” said Parker.
“It takes a very long time for someone to get here to sort the problem out, and within a short space of time of any repair work, another leak occurs.
“A leak in the road surface on Sproule Lane itself was attended to several months ago, the hole the metro opened in the tar has never been repaired and subsequently a big pothole has been developing.”
Parker added that the problems in Parkhill Road are worsening by the day.
To date virtually nothing has happened with regard to the water leaking down Sproule Lane and about a week ago some workers arrived, dug a hole and left.
“The water is still streaming down in front of our driveway and into Parkhill Road,” Parker said.
“This is creating a very serious problem where previous work was carried out.
“The road has subsided considerably where they ‘closed up and tarred’ and as a result the water is creating damming up on these two sections.”
Parker said the whole matter has now been seriously aggravated by a resident who in his wisdom, or rather lack thereof, decided to drop a bakkie load of garden rubble and broken bricks in the hole and what couldn’t fit into the hole was promptly dumped on her pavement.
“A motorist or motorcyclist is without doubt going to have a bad accident because of the state of this section of Parkhill Road,” Parker said.
“Can someone please inform me what it is we as residents need to do to get some action and get this mess sorted our properly?”
She added that in addition to this another section right on the opposite corner to her entrance is subsiding, despite being filled and tarred.
“Serious attention needs to be paid to what’s happening in this area and I (together other residents) am becoming increasingly concerned about the way in which such matters are ignored,” she said.
Another problem is at the junction of Sproule Lane and Parkhill Road, where there is a manhole in the road and the lid is almost permanently lying at an angle which is very dangerous to motorists.
In addition, there are two stormwater drains at the same junction which need attention as one which was damaged during recent roadworks has been very poorly corrected and the other has half the top of the drain missing.
The GCN contacted the metro on a number of occasions for comment and finally Sam Modiba, spokesman for the metro came back to us and said, “The water leak has been attended to and fixed.”
No other comment regarding the other concerns was received.
Ward 36 councillor Chris Swanepoel told the GCN that he is looking into the problems in the area.
