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Bushmans River Estuary

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SEWAGE FLOW: This municipal vacuum tanker (honeysucker) was seen dumping its contents down a hill on River Road in Bushman’s, flowing directly into the Bushmans’ River estuary. The Kenton and Bushman’s ratepayers associations, together with the chamber of business and Estuary Care met with Ndlambe Municipality to resolve the problem and were satisfied with its explanation that the fault did not lie with the municipality but rather with the connections and positions of the septic tanks that the honeysucker came to empty
BUSHMANS RIVER ESTUARY

Municipality dumping sewage and ‘media hype’

ROB KNOWLES and JON HOUZET In March last year a municipal vacuum tanker (aka honeysucker) was photographed by Talk of the Town discharging raw sewage into a bushy area along Wharf Street. When asked to explain why this had occurred, the…

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