{"id":63687,"date":"2014-07-09T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/63687\/resident-concerned-over-serious-water-leak\/"},"modified":"2014-07-09T13:19:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T11:19:32","slug":"resident-concerned-over-serious-water-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/07\/09\/resident-concerned-over-serious-water-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro yet to repair water leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston City New received a call from a disgruntled Elsburg resident.<\/p>\n<p>JP Marais told the GCN of a serious water leak that is plaguing Rademeyer Street; it has become so bad that it is flooding several driveways.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I have reported the matter to the metro several times, but I am yet to receive any assistance,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN reached out to the metro for answers and received a statement from the department of communications and brand management&#8217;s Themba Gadebe.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The 20mm steel connection running in a driveway is badly corroded, with a few clamps on it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It needs to be replaced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are currently unable to use the services of contractors to assist, however, the matter will be attended to as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With no timeline provided on when the repair may take place, all the residents of Elsburg can do is wait.<\/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='8662765691f07f66bde07ce0c11bc7be'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resident concerned over serious water leak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":63834,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1318,979,2730,1002,1004,1715,3186,1273],"class_list":["post-63687","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-elsburg","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-repair","tag-residents-concerns","tag-wasted-water"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","elsburg","germiston","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","repair","Residents concerns","wasted water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63687","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=63687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}