{"id":50845,"date":"2023-03-13T06:01:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T04:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/worcesterstandard\/nagwa-pla-baie-as-stelsel-faal-20230308-2\/"},"modified":"2023-03-13T06:01:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T04:01:15","slug":"nagwa-pla-baie-as-stelsel-faal-20230308-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/worcesterstandard\/nagwa-pla-baie-as-stelsel-faal-20230308-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagwa pla baie as stelsel faal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riool is \u2019n groot kopsorg in die Breedevallei, en selfs inwoners van Rawsonville s\u00ea hierdie probleem raak hulle ook.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre Meyer, \u2019n inwoner hier, s\u00ea rioolprobleme wat gereeld opduik, is vir hulle \u2019n erge kopsorg \u2013 veral as die <i>jet vac<\/i>-voertuie veral snags gereeld in die strate moet wees om riool uit die stelsel op te suig.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOns het nie ernstige rioolprobleme nie, maar dit blyk die probleem duik gereeld elders in die dorp op, en dan is die voertuie en personeel van die BVM op \u2019n mens se voorstoep om aan die stelsel te werk. Dit gebeur soms dat dit sommer laat in die aand gebeur. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMense kla baie oor swak dienslewering, maar ek dink nie dit is die geval nie. Hierdie manne werk laat, maar dan is dit \u2019n geraas in die straat tot wie weet watter tyd, en die voertuig staan bykans die hele pad toe,\u201d vertel hy aan <i>Standard<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Meyer, wat al 15 jaar hier in sy huis in Porterstraat woon, s\u00ea hierdie verskynsel, wat na bewering omtrent op \u2019n weeklikse basis plaasvind, moet mos die munisipaliteit aanmoedig om beter stelsels aan te bring eerder as om heeltyd in tye van nood \u2019n hele buurt uit die slaap te hou.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEk weet inwoners van Spokiesdorp word deur erge rioolprobleme geraak, maar in die dorp is dit sporadies. Hoekom sal hulle altyd in ons straat en die straat langsaan moet werk? Loop die netwerk dan net daar verby, of hoe werk dit? Hulle kan ons darem net kom inlig,\u201d meen Meyer.<\/p>\n<p>\n <i>Standard <\/i>het egter met ander inwoners, wat naby Meyer woon, gepraat en talle s\u00ea hulle hoor niks nie of dit pla hulle nie eintlik as die munisipaliteit daar werk nie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOns hoor nie veel nie en ons moet eintlik dankbaar wees as die munisipaliteit die werk doen,\u201d meen een inwoner.<\/p>\n<p>\n <i>Standard <\/i>berig gereeld oor talle gevalle waar riool en foute in die rioolnetwerk die gemeenskap erg raak. Die Breedevallei-munisipaliteit het in 2022 \u2019n groep deskundiges aangestel om die hele vallei se rioolstelsel te ondersoek en bevindings neer te pen om dit te verbeter. Dit is egter nog onseker hoe hierdie proses vorder.<\/p>\n<p>Louise Prins, \u2019n inwoner van Bothastraat, s\u00ea egter sy hoor die gewerskaf wel laataande \u2013 veral werkers wat in die verte luidrugtig praat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJy hoor soms die pomp loop, en dit is nie juis sagkens nie. 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