Gweru poses health hazard to residents, deposes raw sewage in river
Published: 2016 January 31 05:28:23 (4998 Views)
THE Gweru City Council is discharging raw sewage into Gweru River posing a health hazard to residents in the city's Mutapa and Ascot high density suburbs who are fetching water from the river in the emerging water woes that have seen the entire city going for close to three days without water.
Mr Tsunga Mhangami said the local authority was discharging raw sewage into open stream as it was failing to raise money for water and sewer reticulation.
"It is unfortunate that we are still discharging untreated sewage into an open stream because we haven’t raised enough money to rehabilitate our sewer treatment plant," revealed Mr Mhangami to a local weekly.
Gweru City Council was recently fined $25 000 by the Environmental Management Agency for allegedly discharging raw sewage into an open stream a situation which was posing a health hazard to residents in Mtapa and Ascot.
Gweru also suffers from poor service delivery after it emerged that Woodlands Park had gone for over three years without refuse collection.
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