'You can't even open the windows. This is a health hazard'

Morgenster resident Madge Roach sent the Plainsman a list of C3 notifications, service requests from residents to the City of Cape Town, reporting sewage overflow.

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"You can’t even open the windows. This is a health hazard. How do you eat as this filth brings flies. You don’t want to come out of your house," she said.

Ms Roach said birds feed from the “wet-land” and that the overgrown grass blocks the stormwater from flowing and mixes with the sewage overflow.

Her husband Julian said they complain but the problem reoccurs.

"The same thing is done time and again. We need a solid plan," he said.

The Roach couple live across from a canal which is overgrown with grass, which also overflows and has rubbish dumped.

Last year they complained several times to the City and to the Plainsman.

Then the City claimed the “Swartklip Road sewer pipeline had being sabotaged”.

Prior to that the Plainsman fielded two complaints of the stench and infestation of flies.

The Plainsman also reported on residents being fed up (“Fed up with sewage spills”, Plainsman January 17, 2024; “Morgenster residents fed up with filthy vlei”, Plainsman January 31, 2024). Since then Ms Roach said not much had been done to improve the situation.