Work has been com­plet­ed on the leak which has caused much dis­tress to res­i­dents of Beetham Gar­dens in re­cent times, an ad­vi­so­ry from the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty has con­firmed.

“Works to rem­e­dy over­flows around 24th Street, Beetham Gar­dens are now com­plete and the area ful­ly san­i­tized,” WASA re­ports.

Ac­cord­ing to the WASA ad­vi­so­ry, in­dis­crim­i­nate dump­ing of garbage con­tributed to the mis­ery ex­pe­ri­enced by the res­i­dents.

“In the process of pump down ac­tiv­i­ty to re­duce the over­flows, in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­firmed that this event was in fact caused by the re­moval of sew­er line end caps,” WASA says, “and fur­ther ex­ac­er­bat­ed by in­dis­crim­i­nate dump­ing of garbage, oils and grease in­to the sew­er sys­tem con­nect­ed to the HDC build­ing, lo­cat­ed in the vicin­i­ty of 24th Street. The Au­thor­i­ty’s waste­water team im­me­di­ate­ly re­moved the garbage—in­clu­sive of oil and grease—and re­placed the com­pro­mised sew­er line.”

“This line re­place­ment was done as a tem­po­rary mea­sure to by­pass the ex­ist­ing cleanout and mit­i­gate the po­ten­tial for over­flow at this con­nec­tion,” WASA ex­plains. “Man­holes up­stream of the build­ing sew­ers were in­spect­ed to con­firm car­ry­ing ca­pac­i­ty as a fur­ther mit­i­ga­tion mea­sure. In ad­di­tion to this, tankers will con­tin­ue to be de­ployed dai­ly to as­sist in pre­vent­ing po­ten­tial over­flows.”

The Au­thor­i­ty is urg­ing all cit­i­zens to de­sist from dis­pos­ing garbage, oils and grease in­to waste­water sys­tems, “as this prac­tice can com­pro­mise the sew­er lines, bring­ing ex­treme dis­com­fort to res­i­dents con­nect­ed to these fa­cil­i­ties.”