{"id":93801,"date":"2015-07-10T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/93801\/street-plagued-by-sewage-leaks\/"},"modified":"2015-07-10T15:29:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T13:29:15","slug":"street-plagued-by-sewage-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2015\/07\/10\/street-plagued-by-sewage-leaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Street plagued by sewage leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Pietersen from Elspark writes:<\/p>\n<p>Pipet Street in Elspark, Germiston, has been plagued by sewage blockages and leaks for three weeks.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The latest leak, in my own yard, has been a problem for the last week.<\/p>\n<p>I have reported the matter to the metro and spoken to the chief engineer but still nothing.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Holes dug during construction are also a huge problem in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s note:<\/p>\n<p>Themba Gadebe, spokesman for the Ekurhuleni Metro, explained the blockage was caused by sand inside the sewer line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sewer blockage was cleared on July 7,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe responsible department is surveying the entire area for missing manhole covers that could be causing infiltration of foreign objects.\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='6221d600e99efc5eabb2814acc04aabf'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sewage leak in Pipit Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":92263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-93801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion-edition","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Letters"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93801","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=93801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}