The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty is as­sur­ing Beetham Gar­dens res­i­dents that it is work­ing close­ly with rel­e­vant stake­hold­ers to en­sure the cur­rent sew­er over­flow is­sue is re­solved in the short­est pos­si­ble time.

In an ad­vi­so­ry, WASA ex­plains that the sew­er over­flows in the area of 24th Street in Beetham Gar­dens de­vel­oped fol­low­ing the de­mo­li­tion of a build­ing in the area, which re­sult­ed in the ex­po­sure of the sew­er col­lec­tion pipeline.

“In­ves­ti­ga­tions re­vealed the end cap of the ex­posed pipeline was not in place, al­low­ing for over­flows in the en­vi­ron­ment, WASA said. “This sit­u­a­tion was fur­ther ex­ac­er­bat­ed by re­cent rain­fall and in­creased storm wa­ter in the sew­er sys­tem, re­sult­ing in over­flows via the ex­posed pipeline.”

WASA as­sures it will “con­tin­ue to con­duct the nec­es­sary pump down ac­tiv­i­ty to re­duce the over­flows, whilst the au­thor­i­ties as­so­ci­at­ed with the prop­er­ty make the nec­es­sary arrange­ments to prop­er­ly cap the ex­posed pipeline.”