{"id":69128,"date":"2014-09-18T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/69128\/leak-is-frustrating-residents-of-tedstoneville\/"},"modified":"2014-09-18T13:27:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T11:27:31","slug":"leak-is-frustrating-residents-of-tedstoneville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/09\/18\/leak-is-frustrating-residents-of-tedstoneville\/","title":{"rendered":"Leak is frustrating residents of Tedstoneville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston City News recently received a call from an enraged resident of Tedstoneville.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who wishes to remain unnamed, reported a serious water leak.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He claimed the leak, located at the corner of Valk Street and Swaan Street, in Tedstoneville, has been causing problems in the area for five months now.<\/p>\n<p>He has reported the matter to the metro several times, but has received no help.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The GCN sent an urgent email to the metro to try to establish:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When the leak will be fixed?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>What is causing the leak?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Where residents can\/should report such situations so that the problems can be fixed?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lebogang Ramashala, of the metro\u2019s department of communication and brand management, responded with the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leak at the mentioned address is from an isolating valve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the volume of calls, we are, unfortunately, unable to attend to all the leaks at once, but we will be attending to the complaint as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are giving priority to the most serious leaks.\u201d<\/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='28c1929a267e16579b68d0751cac5609'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro claims they give priority to the most serious leaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":69189,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,4834,2730,1002,1004,1715,1838],"class_list":["post-69128","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-leak","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-repair","tag-tedstoneville"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","Leak","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","repair","tedstoneville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69128","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=69128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}