According to the resident, she reported the leak in Du Raan Road on July 18.
“I contacted the municipality and reported the leak, but, to date, nothing has been done about it,” she says.
The metro was contacted for comment but, at the time of going to print, none had been received.
*A Boksburg North resident, Chris Blanche, has also complained about a consistent water leak outside his home.
According to Blanche life the water meter has been the source of the leak now for two years.
“This started when they moved the meter from inside the yard to the outside. The leak is on the main road.
“Municipality workers came to repair the water meter but it still looks the same as always, leaking,” says Blanche.
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Few people realize that Boksburg has a rival for the Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park in the U.S.A. In Sunward Park at the corner of Duiker and Uiterkyk streets, right next to a big Cape Dutch style house, is the Sunward Park Geyser. Only the Sunward Geyser is not as regular as Old Faithful, and it is nowhere near as pretty. The Sunward Geyser is actually highly disgusting; it is brown, greasy and smelly. Every time we get some rain, as we did this week, the sewers get overloaded and the manhole cover on the corner of Duiker & Uiterkyk jumps in the air, followed by a gusher of raw sewage. I should take a photograph and send it to National Geographic as a wonder of the deep, neglected south of Ekurhuleni. Just under a week since the Sunward Geyser last erupted, macerated toilet paper, dead cats and other debris ejected by the Geyser still lie heaped on the grass pavement. Not nice to walk through; not nice to pay rates for your house next door. Oh wait – better than taking a photo – next time there is a Geyser eruption I will collect some of the effluent in a bath tub, and empty the tub on the counter in the Rates Hall … if pootest works in Cape Town, maybe it will cause a stink here as well…