{"id":120671,"date":"2016-05-06T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/120671\/water-leak-repaired-after-month-long-wait\/"},"modified":"2016-05-05T14:13:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T12:13:26","slug":"water-leak-repaired-after-month-long-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/05\/06\/water-leak-repaired-after-month-long-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Water leak repaired after month-long wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A water leak in Plain Street, in Elsburg, was finally fixed after being reported over a month earlier.<\/p>\n<p>This despite residents claims that the metro promised to send out technicians on the same day the leak was reported, in March.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>A resident, who wishes to remain anonymous, called the GCN after several calls to the metro.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was told twice that someone would be out to fix the leak within hours and still no one has arrived,\u201d he said.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The GCN contacted the metro to find out why technicians did not report to the scene after the residents were told that the matter would be dealt with on the same day the complaint was logged.<\/p>\n<p>Metro spokesman Themba Gadebe, did not explain why the technicians had taken so long to respond to the problem.<\/p>\n<p>He simply stated that the leak had been repaired.<\/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='d69d874adcc95d29102e2995f6de6b30'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The metro reportedly repaired a leak in Plain Street a month after it was first reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":112474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,8515,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-120671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","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\/120671","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=120671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}