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Water pipe bursts in Van Der Merwe Street under sub-station.
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Dangerous combination of water and electricity: https://bit.ly/1pomlaT
At 9am last Wednesday morning residents of Elsburg could not believe that the metro had still not done anything to address a burst water pipe in Van Der Merwe Street. The pipe, which is located under a sub-station, burst between midnight and 1am, sending a river of water down the road and into the nearby properties. The leak, more worryingly, had caused a live electrical box to sink into the ground and become submerged in water.
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