Workers pass the buck on blocked drain
An Awendgloed resident has been complaining about a blocked drain at his house in Trichardt Street since September 28.
Johan de Beer (67) received a reference number and waited in anticipation for the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality to fix the problem.
When nobody from the metro came out, he phoned the call centre again on October 1.
De Beer says on October 2, the metro sent out workers who used a plunger to try “release the overflow a little”.
While doing that, sewage pumped out from between the cracks in the cement next to the blocked drain.
“It didn’t help anyway as the water immediately pushed up again,” he says.
In the four years he has been living there, he says he has never poured any fatty substances down the drain, as claimed by the metro workers.
When the workers tried to clear the drain a second time, they allegedly informed de Beer that “this job is for civic works and not for us”.
Whether the problem was reported to the metro’s civil works department or not, de Beer feels the problem needs to be dealt with by the metro.
It is currently flowing all over the backyard and he needs to hose it off with soap and water to get rid of the stench.
“When washing is done on a Monday, it’s even worse,” he adds.
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