Water pipe burst causes damage to school hall
'We don't get reimbursed for the damage and it's not the first time it has happened!'
A day before schools reopened for 2016 Kempton Park Primary School got a very nasty surprise – a flooded school hall.
A pipe on the school grounds on the corner of Monument and Highveld roads burst at 4am, causing a stream of water flooding into the school grounds.
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According to Alpheus Monene, head of maintenance at the school, he saw the water damage when he arrived on the school grounds. The water was already running into the school hall,” said Monene.
The storage area of the school hall beneath the stage was already covered with water to ankle height.
“Two years ago the same pipe burst and our entire school hall was damaged. This time, luckily, only the storage area was affected,” said Sheriza van der Berg, bursar at Kempton Park Primary School.
”This has got out of hand and the municipality is not doing anything about our complaints. They literally just drove off when I asked them what was going on.
”Our maintenance staff had to make a plan to dig up the bricks around the pipe and pack them in front of the hole to stop the water from flowing so heavily into the school hall and classes.
“We aren’t reimbursed for the damage and this is not the first time this has happened.”
According to Van der Berg the metro had repaired the pipe only two days earlier.
Express is still waiting for comment from the metro.
