{"id":139659,"date":"2016-11-30T07:28:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T05:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=139659"},"modified":"2016-11-30T08:40:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T06:40:17","slug":"company-plagued-by-sewage-leak-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/11\/30\/company-plagued-by-sewage-leak-once-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Company plagued by sewage leak once again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years after a local Wadeville company\u2019s sewage problems were resolved they once again flooded with raw sewage.<\/p>\n<p>The company contacted the Germiston City News in a state of panic and frustration as they once again battled to get answers as sewage continuously leaked into their property.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The leak begun on November 2 and despite numerous calls to the metro nothing has been done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnicians from the metro came to the property where they saw the problem and then left without doing or saying anything,\u201d said a representative of the company.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The GCN sent an urgent query to the metro to find out what had caused the problem to return and when the metro would attend to the problem.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN also questioned why the technicians had done nothing at the site.<\/p>\n<p>Themba Gadebe, spokesman for the metro responded to the query stating that the problem had been attended to on November 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem was caused by a brick which was obstructing the line and caused the leak,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>No comment was given on why it took so long for the metro to attend to the problem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You might also be interested in reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/137871\/electricity-cable-no-longer-a-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\">Electricity cable no longer a threat<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/137583\/what-a-waste\/\">What a waste!<\/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='de1ce2a0e38d21419ccb56a63d64a781'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local company was left in a panic as raw sewage floods their property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":139663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,8515,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004,2362],"class_list":["post-139659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","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-south-africa"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","South Africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139659","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\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}