{"id":109644,"date":"2020-02-12T11:36:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T09:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=109644"},"modified":"2020-02-12T11:36:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T09:36:37","slug":"raw-sewerage-flushes-plein-street-six-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/02\/12\/raw-sewerage-flushes-plein-street-six-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Raw sewerage flushes down Plein Street for six days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fuming resident, who reported the issue to the municipality, has watched technicians come and go without the problem being resolved.<br \/>\nThe flood of sewerage has been flowing into the yards of residents and into the Klein Olifants River since last week Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The problem was reported to STLM on Monday but by Wednesday (today) nothing had been done.<\/p>\n<p>According to STLM Media Spokesperson, Prudence Magutle, the issue will be referred immediately.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/109547\/riool-stroom-vir-vier-dae-straat-af\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Riool stroom vir vier dae in straat af<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ms Magutle explained that the technicians have been working around the clock to have water supply returned to certain parts in Middelburg.<\/p>\n<p>Areas like Tokologo, Malope Village, parts of Gholfsig, Groenkol and Aerorand, have been left without water for two weeks after a pipeline running from the Skietbaan to Rietfontein had to be replaced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just about all of our teams have been dispatched to tend to the water interruptions and this has caused a delay in other maintenance issues,&#8221; Ms Magulte explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it&#8217;s no excuse and we will attend to the sewer leak as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plein Street in Middelburg Suid has become a cesspool as residents count the sixth day of raw sewerage flushing into their streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":109549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[23273,10010,21966,23268,12898,23272,23270,23271,23269,10333,17400],"class_list":["post-109644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-days-of-sewer-pollution-in-plein-street","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg","tag-middelburg-municipal-problems","tag-middelburg-news","tag-plein-street-residents-complain-of-sewer-leak","tag-pollution-of-rivers","tag-sewer-leak-in-plein-street","tag-sewer-pollution","tag-trusted-news","tag-water-pollution"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["days of sewer pollution in plein street","local news","middelburg","middelburg municipal problems","middelburg news","plein street residents complain of sewer leak","pollution of rivers","sewer leak in plein street","sewer pollution","trusted news","water pollution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}