Sewage spills – Ignorance is the problem

IT APPEARS that people do not understand the workings of a sewerage system. There are regular sewerage spills from overflowing manholes, and when the municipality’s Engineers’s Department attends to the spill it is discovered that it is as a result of a blockage.

And when they unblock the pipes, they discover all manner of things that have been thrown down the toilet.

This was the case in the overflowing manhole in Mason Street and at Bhekuzulu Extension 16 (Sasko Area).

This time, in the one case, they discovered half a plastic two-litre bottle, but it could have been nappy liners, disposable nappies, sanitary pads, cardboard, bits of wood, wire, dish cloths and other fabrics… the list is almost endless.

It surely must be ignorance if it cannot be blamed on stupidity. Surely it cannot be intentional to have a neighbourhood stinking of raw sewerage.

The only things that should enter the sewerage system is human excrement and toilet paper (not newspaper, not any other “glossy” paper). Just excrement and toilet paper.

Parents are advised to inform their children…

Excrement and toilet paper only.

Otherwise you end up with a Mason Street situation.