{"id":46967,"date":"2024-01-25T07:10:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T05:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/fabriek-se-stank-kwel-20240124-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T06:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T04:39:11","slug":"fabriek-se-stank-kwel-20240124-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/fabriek-se-stank-kwel-20240124-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabriek se \u2018stank\u2019 kwel inwoners van Wemmershoek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Inwoners van Wemmershoek tussen Paarl en Franschhoek s\u00ea hulle is keelvol vir die bedrywighede by die Sawmill-vrugteverpakkingsfabriek, waar di\u00e9 fabriek glo self sy afvalwaterlyn aan die Stellenbosch-munisipaliteit se stormwaterstelsel gekoppel het en dit nou \u2019n onaangename reuk in die gebied veroorsaak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Eikestadnuus <\/em>het vandeesweek die plek langs die fabriek se heining in Proteastraat besoek. Dit was duidelik dat \u2019n gat in die straat gegrawe is om [wat inwoners beskryf as] afvalwater by die stormwaterlyn aan die oorkant van die pad uit te kry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die koerant verstaan die maatskappy het glo self die koppeling in Desember verlede jaar gemaak. Die teer oor die pad is egter steeds nie vervang nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isaac Davids, die voorsitter van die Wemmershoek-belastingbetalers\u00advereniging, het met <em>Eikestadnuus&nbsp;<\/em>se besoek ges\u00ea die reuk wat van die \u201conwettige koppeling\u201d kom, is ondraaglik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_b86bc848\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/9937\/f85451bf9b434ef98902f15ab0336be0.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/624c0daf01ea46d18dd7df30f6370763.jpg\" title=\"Die Stellenbosch-munisipaliteit onttrek in Februarie verlede jaar rioolafval by die fabriek.\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Die Stellenbosch-munisipaliteit onttrek in Februarie verlede jaar rioolafval by die fabriek.<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDit is \u2019n riool-tipe reuk wat veral laat smiddae saam met die wind hier deur die woongebied beweeg. Ons het ook nooit \u2019n probleem met so baie vlie\u00eb gehad nie en skielik, nadat daardie koppeling gemaak is, is hulle \u2019n probleem. Soos jy kan sien, is die pyp duidelik nie eens ordentlik aangel\u00ea nie. Baie afvalwater gaar net daar op en vrot. Hoe kan enige sakeonderneming dit aan inwoners wil doen?\u201d vra hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Eikestadnuus<\/em> het intussen \u2019n brief bekom wat in November 2021 deur die Stellenbosch-munisipaliteit se hoof-tegnikus vir ontwikkeling en infrastruktuur aan die munisipaliteit se uitvoerende direkteur vir beplanning en ekonomiese ontwikkeling gerig is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In die brief maak die tegnikus kapsie teen die fabriek se aansoek om sy afvalwaterlyn aan die Wemmershoek-afvalwater\u00adsuiweringsaanleg te koppel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDie Wemmershoek-afvalwatersuiweringsaanleg het nie die vermo\u00eb om enige nuwe ontwikkelings te hanteer nie. Die ontwikkeling kan dus nie in hierdie stadium aan die afvalwatersuiweringsaanleg gekoppel word nie,\u201d lui die brief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die tegnikus s\u00ea ook die gebruik van \u2019n septiese tenk, wat dan deur die munisipaliteit se riooldienste onttrek moet word, word ook nie aanbeveel nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span>Eikestadnuus<\/span> verstaan dat die fabriek in daardie stadium van \u2019n septiese tenk gebruik gemaak het, wat deur die munisipaliteit onttrek is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDie bestaande septiese tenk en weg-droog-stelsel by die ontwikkeling moet deur \u2019n meer omgewingsvriendelike proses vervang word,\u201d skryf die tegnikus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_16919b6f\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/9938\/c88410bf1a1243b2bc870f5c9ac0925d.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0da107f1a74547f5a6dbed91f3235e8c.jpeg\" title=\"\u2019n Tegnikus by die Stellenbosch-munisipaliteit het in November 2021 kapsie gemaak teen die fabriek se aansoek om sy afvalwaterlyn aan die Wemmershoek-afvalwatersuiweringsaanleg te koppel.\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">\u2019n Tegnikus by die Stellenbosch-munisipaliteit het in November 2021 kapsie gemaak teen die fabriek se aansoek om sy afvalwaterlyn aan die Wemmershoek-afvalwatersuiweringsaanleg te koppel.<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens Davids is dit hierdie beslissing deur die munisipaliteit wat daartoe gelei het dat die fabriek toe \u201cself \u2019n manier gevind het om van hul afvalwater ontslae te raak\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Eikestadnuus<\/em> het by verdere ondersoek bevind dat die Stellenbosch-munisipaliteit nog in Februarie verlede jaar afvalwater by die fabriek onttrek het, ten spyte van die tegnikus se aanbevelings dat rioolafval nie daar onttrek moet word nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDis onaanvaarbaar. Dit vrot tot in ons huise. Hoe is s\u00f3 iets goedgekeur wetende dit sou newe-effekte h\u00ea? Dit kan tot siektes lei. Hier woon mense, nie varke nie,\u201d het \u2019n ontstoke inwoner in Februarie verlede jaar op sosiale media geuiter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens Davids is kommunikasie al verskeie kere oor die gemeenskap se ongelukkigheid aan die fabriek gerig. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hy s\u00ea die fabriek het ook op \u2019n vergadering belowe om die probleem oor die stank op te los, maar inwoners moet vandag nog steeds met die reuk saamleef.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die fabriek kon nie vir kommentaar bereik word toe <em>Eikestadnuus<\/em> telefonies na een van die bestuurslede uitgereik het nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die Stellenbosch-munisipaliteit het intussen by navraag aan&nbsp;<em>Eikestadnuus<\/em>&nbsp;ges\u00ea \u201cdie ontwikkeling is toegelaat om op hul eie onkoste \u2019n waterpyp aan \u2019n bestaande munisipale waterpyp te verbind\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGeen toestemming is egter verleen om aan enige munisipale afvalwaterpyp of stormwaterkanaal te verbind nie. Die munisipaliteit is bewus gemaak van hierdie beweerde voorval en het reeds ondersoek begin instel,\u201d het Stuart Grobbelaar, die munisipale woordvoerder,<em>ges\u00ea.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grobbelaar s\u00ea voorts die munisipaliteit dra ook kennis van \u2019n klagte wat aan die einde van 2023 deur die Wemmershoek-gemeenskap en sy belastingbetalers\u00advereniging ingedien is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOns omgewingspanne was Maandag 22 Januarie op die toneel om ondersoek in te stel na gerugte van besoedeling en sal toepaslike stappe doen indien waterbesoedeling hier plaasvind. 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