{"id":81049,"date":"2015-02-13T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/81049\/water-meter-is-not-leaking-says-metro\/"},"modified":"2015-02-13T08:52:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T06:52:08","slug":"water-meter-is-not-leaking-says-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/02\/13\/water-meter-is-not-leaking-says-metro\/","title":{"rendered":"Water meter is not leaking \u2013 says metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan Black, an Estra resident, claims he has been battling to get the metro to repair his leaking water meter since last year.<\/p>\n<p>He said his water meter has been leaking since February, 2014.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cDespite numerous calls to the metro, nothing has been done to repair the leak,\u201d Black said.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN approached the metro to find out:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0When will this be repaired?<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Why has it taken so long to repair?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe matter was attended and repaired in February 2014,\u201d explained Themba Gadebe, spokesman for the metro.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA follow up inspection, done in March 2014, confirmed that the repairs were complete and there was no evidence of any further water leaks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe water department team further investigated the above query, and it was found that the water meter was operating as normal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe water seen in the complainant\u2019s meter box, came from the neighbour&#8217;s leaking internal water pipes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as the complainant\u2019s neighbour repairs the internal leaking water pipes, the water in the meter will no longer appear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe municipality sincerely apologises for the inconvenience caused,\u201d Gadebe concluded.<\/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='fd6686b2224f97c6f5dd26e9ea5dc5de'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resident claims water meter has been leaking since February 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":81069,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004,3563,1449,6556],"class_list":["post-81049","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-water-leak","tag-water-meter","tag-water-meter-repair"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","water leak","water meter","water meter repair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81049","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=81049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}