Yesterday I went for a walk along the river and noticed signs of about 8 to ten people living on the Valkenberg side of the river between the River Club and N2. I did not go further south and i did not go exploring off the path. There are also signs of bedding being aired, a few piles of garbage and what seems to be about 6 garbage bags possibly collected waiting to be taken away?
I also noticed a corrugated iron sheet in front of pipes going through the ‘rased burm’ near the weir. One of the new lamp posts has been knocked down. near the fork in the road in front of the hotel. There is also a burst pipe in the middle of the road at the same spot. There used to be garbage bins (that were not big enough for all the garbage collected once a week) at the new improved parking areas. They seem to have vanished. I saw quite a lot of bottles and other new garbage lying about near these spots and along the side of the burm between the weir and the Wild Fig restaurant. The rest of the area is substantially cleaner than I had last seen it! Regards, marc From: Marc Turok Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [obsnw] Liesbeek River problems are Observatory problems. I am interested in what Trevor says : "its considered a HotSpot and DPU are supposed to monitor it" When was this undertaking made by DPU and when did they recognise it as a 'Hot Spot'? The report from Sybrand that they had to remove 110 refuse bags of garbage and have to repeat this process in June shows what a disaster this has become! The other fact stated that "every pipe is occupied and that squatter camps are flourishing!' is a serious problem for us all, particularly since it is also claimed that these are not just homeless people with nowhere to go.... Its claimed these are 'drug pushers, prostitutes and criminals". We also heard a separate account that a criminal was followed and traced down to this area. If all this is known... surely it should be acted on long ago and at first knowledge.... if this is verified evidence. Thanks to Brian at OBSID for stating they would follow up on the issue (notwithstanding the fact that we understand that Liesbeek River is not within the area managed by OBSID). Lets keep up the monitoring and the follow-up action to get plans in place to stop the littering, stop the land invasion, stop the drug abuse, prostitution and all crime in our area. Regards, Marc -----Original Message----- From: Trevor Hughes Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 1:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [obsnw] Liesbeek River Cleaning A[n Observatory] CommunityProject - TWENTIETH CLEANING DAY, Saturday 9 May 2015 Feedback On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 1:01 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe that one of the reasons that sqatters camps flourish along the > banks of the Liesbeeck (in this case) during the dry months and are not > "stamped out" is because not enough people know that they can call a > dedicated phone number to report/complain and 2ndly because not enough > people actually do/would report. > THE DPU know full well about the situtation and its considered a HotSpot and the are supposed to monitor it which they clearly do not do diligently enough. I guess if more people did call them then the squeaky wheel would come into play....... I'm interested in what that person refers to as an informal settlement in Valkenburg (refer to Franks post) - it can't be the Liesbeek banks can it? Trev -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OPS [Obsid Public Safety] - 24/7 control room TEL: 021-447-1066 or 072-063-1653 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EMERGENCIES: 10111 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ONW email: [email protected] WEB: www.obswatch.org.za FACEBOOK: facebook.com/obswatch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Useful Obs Numbers: obs.org.za/obsdir You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Observatory Neighbourhood watch group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. 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