RESIDENTS EVACUATED AMID SEWAGE SPILL

Table View families warned City officials

- GENEVIEVE SERRA

CITY Fire and Rescue teams have evacuated at least six Table View families from their homes via rubber duck boats following a pump station failure that led to the flooding of their homes and streets yesterday.

The evacuation comes just two months after the residents penned a warning to City officials that included a report by a resident on the Protected Area Advisory Committee, concerning the sewage overflow into Rietvlei Lagoon.

The roads affected yesterday include Hof Road, Sprigg Road and others.

The City confirmed that one of the two pumps had been restored at the station and that notices had been sent out on Friday to alert residents of the station failure.

Irate residents also called out ward councillor, Sue van der Linde, claiming she was inactive and failed to respond to the catastrophe.

Van der Linde, who was on site last night, said she was aware of the complaints, and assured residents that officials together with herself were working around the clock to make sure residents were safe and the sewage was being pumped out of the streets and homes.

She confirmed that evacuations took place with ambulance teams on standby while residents were issued with third party claim forms.

"We are pumping and dumping thousands of liters of sewage water and we have two vacuum trucks running at a time," she said.

"I have been here since the early hours of the morning (Monday).