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Print Exclusive: Family confined to their home as five-year long sewage leak continues to flow

Primrose East residents long for an end to their sewage leak nightmare.

Primrose East resident Margaret Azera Cunningham-Werrett shows the GCN the flood of raw sewage that flows out of a manhole directly behind her Quince Street home. The leak is so bad that sewage flows freely through her property.

As the days get hotter, many residents are looking forward to spending more time in their gardens, soaking up the sun and enjoying being outside.

But for Primrose East resident Margaret Azera Cunningham-Werrett and her family, this is not the reality, as they are forced to stay indoors as raw sewage flows through their property from an ongoing sewage leak.

The main source of the leak is a manhole found right behind the family’s Quince Street home.

For the full story make sure you get your copy of this week’s GCN out tomorrow (Wednesday).

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Raw sewage can be seen spilling from a manhole located behind a Quince Street home in Primrose East.

What was once a sewage leak is now a sewage river.

Human faeces can be seen in the yard of Margaret Azera Cunningham-Werrett’s Quince Street home in Primrose East. The sewage leak has been ongoing for five years.

What was once a sewage leak is now a sewage river.

Raw sewage can be seen spilling from a manhole located behind a Quince Street home in Primrose East.

Raw sewage can be seen spilling from a manhole located behind a Quince Street home in Primrose East.

Raw sewage can be seen spilling from a manhole located behind a Quince Street home in Primrose East.

Raw sewage can be seen spilling from a manhole located behind a Quince Street home in Primrose East.

Raw sewage can be seen spilling from a manhole located behind a Quince Street home in Primrose East.

Raw sewage can be seen spilling from a manhole located behind a Quince Street home in Primrose East.

Raw sewage can be seen spilling from a manhole located behind a Quince Street home in Primrose East.

Raw sewage can be seen spilling from a manhole located behind a Quince Street home in Primrose East.

Raw sewage can be seen spilling from a manhole located behind a Quince Street home in Primrose East.

What was once a sewage leak is now a sewage river.

What was once a sewage leak is now a sewage river.

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