Water leak waste anger

Callan Date
A BERWICK resident is furious with Casey Council for allowing a cracked pipe at Edwin Flack Reserve to leak water for more than two months.
Cliff Fothergill said the broken pipe had been leaking for nine weeks, wasting a huge amount of water.
“We hear all these advertisements about saving water and then we have the council not doing anything about a problem in their own backyard,” he said.
Mr Fothergill said he reported the issue last Monday and council workers visited the site four days later, but the water continues to go to waste.
“I spoke to one of the workers who came out and looked at the pipe and he told me it was broken. He said they would be fixing it.”
That was six days ago and Mr Fothergill is angry that nothing has been done.
“Water is such a precious commodity and for this much to go to waste is absolutely mad,” he said.
Casey manager of building services Ron Walker said council had been working on the problem for six days and the leak would be fixed by the end of the week.
“The leak was notified to council as having a low level of urgency and it wasn’t an issue in terms of causing inconvenience to anyone,” Mr Walker said.
He said that residents were encouraged to notify council of any similar problems they believed needed attention in the Casey area.