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NOWHERE TO STEP UP: The step leading from the Kowie Flats to Southwell Road have become an unofficial overgrown rubbish dump Picture: ROB KNOWLES

The steps from Stocks Ave to Southwell Road

It is an ongoing issue, the steps from the Kowie Flats to Southwell Road are littered with plastic, paper, wasted food and other types of household rubbish and, every week, it gets worse. The steps are used by many people every day as a…

Lantana on the steps

Here is a short video of alien plant species on the steps leading from Stocks Avenue to the R72 (Southwell Road). These steps are used by many people who travel in or out of town but is also used by people as a dumping ground. Is it the…

Refuse on the steps requires a sustainable solution

There must be a sustainable soluion too the problem of houseghold refuse being strewn all over the steps leading from Stocks Avenue to Southwell Road which are, once again, in a terrible mess. This is not good from a health perspective…

Municipality must take steps…

Again, the steps that connect Stocks Avenue and Southwell Road are covered with refuse. Surely this is not what we want our visitors (thousands of whom will come to town for the Bathurst Show and, later, the Amanzi Challenge) to see?…

More sewage problems

It is a perennial problem, raw sewage flowing down streets and roads and directly into the river, and the urgent attention of the municipality is required if the problem is to be finally resolved. This time, and not for the first time, it…

Steps are filthy, does anyone care?

Once again we are publishing photographs of the steps that lead from Stocks Avenue to Southwell Road (R72). It seems that residents think this area is an extension of the Port Alfred dumpsite, the number of bags (household and garden…

Tree blocks driver’s view

Notice: A tree has fallen across the road at the bottom of Stocks Avenue as it leads into West Street that obscures the view of drivers travelling down the hill. Be careful when driving in this area until the tree is removed.

Litter still a big problem at the stairs

The stairs leading from the corner of Stocks Avenue to Southwell Road (R72) seem to be a regular dumping ground for household refuse. It is unclear where this refuse comes from or who has scattered it about but requires someone to pick it…