{"id":112689,"date":"2016-02-07T07:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T05:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/112689\/metro-finds-no-leak\/"},"modified":"2016-02-08T11:57:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T09:57:32","slug":"metro-finds-no-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/02\/07\/metro-finds-no-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro finds no leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GCN recently received a call from a local company, located in Dimitri Road in Germiston.<\/p>\n<p>The company has been left desperate for a solution over the state of the road outside their premises.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The staff member who spoke to a GCN journalist explained that the road is in such a terrible condition due to a water leak, that was reported to the metro last year.<\/p>\n<p>The trucks travelling along the road struggle to get in-and-out of companies and are also being damaged as the leak has resulted in two large potholes in the road.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The GCN contacted the metro to enquire if they were aware of the problem and what is being done to repair this road and leak.<\/p>\n<p>Themba Gadebe, spokesman for the metro, responded with the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn inspection was carried out on Dimitri Road. Ekurhuleni technicians found a water meter lying on its side with no signs of a water leak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reinstatement work of the water meter will commence next week,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/108463\/water-leaks-for-days-in-delville\/\" target=\"_blank\">Water leaks for days in Delville<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/107851\/resident-shocked-at-service\/\">Resident shocked at service<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/107324\/resident-reduced-to-asking-neighbours-for-water\/\">Resident reduced to asking neighbours for water<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/107209\/residents-furious-over-reservoir-leak\/\">Residents furious over reservoir leak<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='6a5288f3d97d197e486a6a62bafe4b2a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro carried out an inspection in Dimitri Road to determine the cause of a reported water leak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":112793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-112689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}