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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…

  • Rob Knowles
HONEYSUCKER

Punish sewage dumpers

Employees of Ndlambe Municipality were caught in the act on Saturday March 7, doing what residents say has been happening for months and perhaps even years. This writer chanced upon a municipal honeysucker (vacuum tanker) backed up…

  • Jon Houzet
VACUUM TANKER TRUCKS

Ndlambe Municipality honeysucker dumping sewage in bush

Talk of the Town came across this Ndlambe Municipality honeysucker (vacuum tanker) discharging raw sewage in the bush on the verge of Wharf Street adjacent to Nemato at about 2.45pm today. When the driver and his two colleagues saw this…

  • Jon Houzet