{"id":132750,"date":"2016-09-09T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T06:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/132750\/sewage-leak-fills-sunnyrock-yard\/"},"modified":"2016-09-09T15:22:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T13:22:12","slug":"sewage-leak-fills-sunnyrock-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/09\/09\/sewage-leak-fills-sunnyrock-yard\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewage leak fills Sunnyrock yard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sunnyrock resident called the GCN last Monday in an attempt to get answers.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Kelly told the GCN that the manhole outside his home had been leaking raw sewage for four days.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Despite numerous calls to the metro nothing had been done and the sewage had run from the manhole down his driveway and was collecting in his yard.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN sent an urgent query to the metro to find out what had caused the leak and why it had taken so long to repair.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe leak was caused by a sewer blockage on a municipal sewer pipe but has since been repaired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to a miscommunication within the metro which resulted in a team not being dispatched, we apologise for inconvenience suffered as a result,\u201d said spokesman for the metro, Themba Gadebe.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the metro would clean the yard after the hazardous leak, Gadebe said, \u201cThe metro officials will clean the yard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/131525\/resident-upset-by-poor-repair\/\" target=\"_blank\">Resident upset by poor repair<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/129239\/use-these-contact-details-for-your-meter-readings\/\" target=\"_blank\">Use these contact details for your meter readings<\/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='e39e0307d94f31728654014a170c3f1b'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sunnyrock resident\u2019s yard was left filled with sewage after a manhole outside his home started leaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":132763,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004,5398],"class_list":["post-132750","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","tag-sewage-leak"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","sewage leak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132750","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=132750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}