{"id":118402,"date":"2016-04-15T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/118402\/leak-a-threat-to-elsburg-sub-station\/"},"modified":"2016-04-15T15:19:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T13:19:04","slug":"leak-a-threat-to-elsburg-sub-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/04\/15\/leak-a-threat-to-elsburg-sub-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Leak a threat to Elsburg sub-station"},"content":{"rendered":"

At 9am on Wednesday morning residents of Elsburg could not believe that the metro had still not done anything to address a burst water pipe in Van Der Merwe Street.<\/p>\n

The pipe, which is located under a sub-station, burst between midnight and 1am, sending a river of water down the road and into the nearby properties.<\/p>

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The leak, more worryingly, had caused a live electrical box to sink into the ground and become submerged in water.<\/p>\n

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A burst water pipe in Van Der Merwe Street in Elsburg saw litres of water being wasted and a sub-station\u2019s electrical box being submerged in water. Bjorn Smidt-Hart shows just how much the electrical box has sunk because of the leak.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe woke up one street below, in Nielsen Street, with a river flowing through our property,\u201d said Corn\u00e9 Botha.<\/p>

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Residents throughout the Elsburg neighbourhood called the metro\u2019s call centre.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs this the way the metro conduct themselves when there is a crisis?<\/p>\n

\u201cNine hours later and millions of litres of water gone, in a country where there is a water shortage and farmers and animals are dying of thirst,\u201d Botha added.<\/p>\n