ANITA BESTER writes via Facebook:
I write to you today as a very frustrated and angry Kempton Park resident.
If the water pressure is not horrific, then we do not have any in our taps and that while water is streaming down our roads like rivers everywhere I drive.
Last week water streamed down Highveld Road, this morning I drove along Pretoria Road and saw that the water was streaming down from Van Riebeeck Road all the way down Pretoria Road, flowing into the polluted vlei just before turning into Elgin Road.
Last but not least, for months now water is streaming down Boomkruiper/Ossewa streets in Chloorkop. At first, the metro dug trenches at the Boomkruiper section. When I stopped to ask them what they were doing, they said they were installing these trenches to try and divert underground water that just kept flowing.
Anyway, that was what I understood from them. This underground water badly damaged the road and when they were done, they re-tarred the whole road at the Boomkruiper section, as well as the Ossewa section.
Now it seems as if the underground water is starting to burst out of the upper part of Ossewa Street, flowing down the newly tarred road. It will eventually damage the newly tarred road and soon we will be driving on a damaged tarred road.
I have to wonder what part fibre installations play in the Van Riebeeck and Highveld roads part of my complaint.
And Boomkruiper/Ossewa streets: if it is indeed underground water, why not find a way to save that water?
At the time of going to print, the metro has not replied to queries – Editor
