By S. Siapha Mulbah
The overflow of leaking sewages in communities are causing filthiness in major streets across Monrovia as well as polluting the city’s biggest commercial centers like Waterside as the rainy season sets in.
Some leaking sewage lines in several affected areas are continuously putting out bad feces from septic tanks thus resulting into serious health risks for community dwellers.
The situation had been observed for several weeks and needs to claim the attention of authorities in charge.
Those areas being affected include parts of the United Nations Drive, the Soniwein Community, Newport, Benson, Randal, Front Streets, as well as Gurley and Benson Streets.
The commercial site of Waterside, among other places, are filled with unwanted particles during the fall of the rain thereby leaving remnants of bad odor from garbage where flies and other disease carriers use for habitats and thereafter move into homes.
Residents of the affected areas told reporters that the rainy season had brought a life threatening case to them because of the discharge of septic tank substances that sails from along the road into their homes in the community.
They said as it rains every day, they are compelled to get in the rain clearing the lines so that mess does not enter their homes.
A business woman identified as Mariah Gaye at the intersection of Water and Randall Streets disclosed that the drainages are reportedly blocked which is causing ‘pupu’ water to flow across the entire waterside market.
“We are here running our little businesses to survive but the pupu water alone that is running among us here can cause us to take our market money to treat ourselves. From the starting of Water Street to the end of the commercial space, we are not safe. Just last night rain, see what we going through,” Mariah asserted.
She decried the condition the business community is faced with adding that there have been complains raised over the years but those in authority are not concerned about their well-being. “We have reported this over and again to the extend radio stations are playing our voices everyday but nothing is happening.”
According to her, petti traders are mostly affected because they are moving in the water from one place to another in order to get their markets going.
Residents of the Buzzy Quarter Community along the United Nations Drive also called on the Monrovia City Cooperation and the Liberia Water and Sewer Cooperation to conduct a search on its sewage line across the city so that messes pollution can be controlled.
