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Hier is van die slaggate wat weens die waterlek in Makappastraat ontstaan het.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Deon Saul, \u2019n onderwyser by Jubilee Park Prim\u00ear wys die waterlek wat die probleme veroorsaak. Foto:VERSKAF<\/div>\n
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DIE Nelson Mandelabaai-metro het twee weke gelede aangekondig dat \u2019n R15 miljoen projek afgeskop het om met die hulp van sewe loodgietermaatskappye die duisende waterlekplekke, binne 12 uur nadat dit aangemeld is, in die metro te herstel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Makappastraat, Uitenhage, voor die ingang van Jubilee Park Prim\u00ear, loop water al byna \u2019n jaar uit \u2019n waterlek, wat herhaalde kere deur die skool aangemeld is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDie pad l\u00ea nou al amper \u2019n jaar so. Die inwoners van Blikkiesdorp sowel as ons hier by die skool, het al talle kere die munisipaliteit gebel oor die waterlek en slaggate,\u201d s\u00ea Dudley Maarman, adjunkhoof by Jubilee Park Prim\u00ear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volgens Maarman het \u2019n waterpyp boontoe op in die pad gebars en ge- volglik stroom die water pad af by die skool verby. Die langdurige waterlek het tot gevolg dat die teeroppervlak nou vol slaggate is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEen van ons leerders was vroeg in die jaar amper deur \u2019n motor wat vir die gate wou uitswaai, omgery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBaie motors wat deur die slaggate gery het, het skade opgedoen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maarman s\u00ea hy het vroeg in Maart die wyksraadslid Tyron Adams van die waterlek en slaggate in die pad ingelig. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHy het belowe dat hy die skool sou besoek om die omvang van die skade aan die pad te assesseer, maar hy het nooit opgedaag nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDis onaanvaarbaar dat die pad basies vir \u2019n jaar in so haglike toestand l\u00ea. Boonop hou dit \u2019n gesondheidsrisiko in vir die leerders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDie gemeenskap en die skool pleit by die munisipaliteit dat daar dringend aandag aan die saak geskenk moet word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indien die probleem nie spoedig opgelos word nie, laat die munisipaliteit die skool geen keuse om die saak na \u2019n ho\u00ebr vlak te neem nie,\u201d s\u00ea Maarman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Nelson Mandelabaai-metro het twee weke gelede aangekondig dat die hulp van sewe loodgietermaatskappye ingeroep is om die ongeveer 7 000 waterlekplekke in die metro te herstel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volgens Andile Lungisa, ANC-burgemeesterskomiteelid vir infra-struktuur en ingenieurswese in die metro, is di\u00e9 R15 miljoen stap deel van die metro se plan om binne 12 uur aandag te gee aan lekkasies wat aangemeld word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Die Burger <\/span>is berig dat die DA se Jason Grobbelaar, raadslid vir wyk 40, s\u00ea die metro maak nie statistieke bekend oor hoeveel water per wyk weens lekkasies verlore gaan nie, maar die jongste syfers dui daarop dat ongeveer 35% van drinkwater weens lekkasies en water wat nie gemeet word nie, verlore gaan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volgens Lungisa het die nuwe loodgietermaatskappye, met sowat 30 werknemers elk, \u2019n kontrak van drie jaar met die munisipaliteit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hy glo met die versterkte span is die metro se teiken haalbaar om binne 12 uur nadat \u2019n waterlekkasie aangemeld is, aandag daaraan te gee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hy s\u00ea dit sal streng opgevolg word as die teiken nie behaal word nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDaar sal altyd waterlekkasies wees, maar ons kan nie water deur 7 000 lekplekke vermors nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDaarom is dit belangrik om so gou as moontlik op te tree wanneer \u2019n pyp bars of \u2019n waterlekplek aangemeld word,\u201d s\u00ea Lungisa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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