{"id":74048,"date":"2014-11-21T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/74048\/does-leak-pose-a-health-risk\/"},"modified":"2014-11-21T08:22:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T06:22:08","slug":"does-leak-pose-a-health-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/21\/does-leak-pose-a-health-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Does leak pose a health risk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSurely a sewage leak so close to the entrance of a food factory is a health hazard?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was among the concerns raised by an anonymous resident who reported a sewage leak to the Germiston City News recently.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The leak is reportedly found on the corner of Wadeville and Murray roads in Wadeville, at the entrance of the Pioneer Foods (Pty) Ltd T\/A Bokomo Foods factory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leak has been leaking for three weeks to date.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHow could it have been left so long?,\u201d the resident added.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN approached the metro to find out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Is the metro aware of the leak?<\/li>\n<li>What can be done about this leak?<\/li>\n<li>Does it not become a health hazard when it is this close to a food factory?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The metro\u2019s senior officer from the department of communications and brand management, Lebogang Ramashala, release a single lined statement to the media.<\/p>\n<p>It read: \u201cThe Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality will attend to the complaint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you feel that this statement is enough given the location of this sewage leak?<\/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='ec3e5e4fee458138c46e954edd580b49'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When will sewage leak be repaired by the metro?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":74058,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004,5398,1267],"class_list":["post-74048","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","tag-wadeville"],"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","wadeville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74048","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=74048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}