Standerton’s Coligny Street tackled at last
Workers will be busy all the way towards Leyds Street and the Muller Street Pump Station.
A sight for sore eyes in Coligny Street, Standerton.
Lekwa Municipality sent an excavator and TLB to the area for work on Thursday, August 4 to begin in earnest on the sewage line.
Their communications department notified residents on July 29 about the upgrading of the line, saying workers will be busy all the way towards Leyds Street and the Muller Street Pump Station.
The dilapidated pipeline will be excavated and replaced with an upgraded pipeline.
A request was made to the community to cooperate with Lekwa and the appointed service providers.
Driveways and premises of residents will be affected.
The Standerton Advertiser published quite a number of articles on conditions in the area over the past years.
A bid committee sat in June for repairs to the infrastructure.
Sewage flows at some places into residents’ yards and the sewage spills at the intersection with Schwickard Street are no laughing matter.
The communications manager of the municipality, Thobeka Mtshiselwa, previously said the whole line has collapsed.
During the South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC) visit on February 17, the intersection at Schwickard and Coligny Street was noted.
Alberto Franco, DA-councillor, said on Friday, August 5 that the party submitted many requests in the past for the problem to be addressed.
“We are happy to see that work has begun,” Franco also said
Franco added that the potholes in Coligny Street should be repaired in tandem with the upgrading of the sewage line.
“Lekwa ensured that hot and cold tar were used for potholes to be repaired in Nelson Mandela Drive,” he concluded.
