In August 2013 WASA started the replacement of the old Santa Cruz main.This led, of course, to severe inconvenience to citizens of the surrounding communities that use the Santa Cruz Old Road and Saddle Road.It is now well over a year since the project commenced and it has not been completed. We have had to endure craters, uneven road surface and countless hours of productive time wasted in traffic, all because of the blatant incompetence and doh-care attitude of WASA, its workers and management.
Over a year ago WASA destroyed several kilometres of a roadway that hundred of thousands of citizens use on a daily basis and just left it like that with no care or concern.It gets worse: the pipe was laid a year ago and a few weeks ago an announcement was made that road paving would be starting. We all breathed a sigh of relief, but it was not to be.
They have had this main in the ground for over a year and decided to only test it two or three weeks before they started paving...can you believe it?What do we have now? Almost a kilometre of Saddle Road being paved and huge holes being dug up in four places to repair leaks. All because of the incompetence, lack of planning and downright stupidity of WASA. The road is still in a terrible state, with new leaks appearing every day.
Which brings into question the capabilities of the contactor that did the work in the first place. That, however, is for another letter.I would like to call on line minister Ganga Singh to please help us. We have suffered for way too long. I hope, Minister, you can get the people at WASA working to bring some measure of relief to the residents of Santa Cruz, San Juan, the hundreds of truck drivers and the many people that use these roads on weekends to get the beaches.
Aniel Khan
Santa Cruz