{"id":120659,"date":"2016-05-07T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/120659\/sewage-leaks-for-weeks-before-being-cleared\/"},"modified":"2016-05-07T09:21:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T07:21:48","slug":"sewage-leaks-for-weeks-before-being-cleared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/05\/07\/sewage-leaks-for-weeks-before-being-cleared\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewage leaks for weeks before being cleared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston City News recently received a call from a Norma Court resident who was desperate for answers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been reporting a sewage leak to the metro for weeks now, but have received no assistance,\u201d said the resident, who does not wish to be named.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The resident explained that the leak had become so bad that raw sewage could be seen across the garden.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN contacted the metro to find out what had caused the leak and why the leak had been left so long and when it would be repaired and the area cleaned.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe reported sewage leak in Primrose has been resolved and foreign objects were found in the line,\u201d was the response of Themba Gadebe, spokesman for the metro.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/120349\/road-still-a-mess\/\" target=\"_blank\">Road still a mess<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/119078\/trenches-still-lying-open\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trenches still lying open<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/118523\/primrose-pothole-continues-to-grow\/\" target=\"_blank\">Primrose pothole continues to grow<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/118525\/some-marlands-roads-un-drivable-say-residents\/\" target=\"_blank\">Some Marlands roads un-drivable \u2013 say residents<\/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='56cb1764fd28103317c9cbc01f0e2f25'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The residents of Norma Court were desperate for answers after the metro did not respond to sewage leak complaints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":99604,"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-120659","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\/120659","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=120659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}