New England landfill: City marks two years of no fires
Umsunduzi says progress is being made in bringing about
containment and control at the city's hazardous landfill site.
The site has not had dangerous fires for two years now.
Pietermaritzburg's New England landfill site has, in the recent past, been an ongoing health and safety hazard.
Previously there have been out-of-control fires lasting days, leading to vast amounts of air pollution and dark clouds of smoke hanging over the city.
This week mayor Mzimkhulu Thebolla officially welcomed a new compactor heavy-duty machine, which will be an additional mechanism for processing waste.
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He says the machinery comes as they've just marked two years without the fires which plagued the start of his tenure as mayor.
“Two weeks after my inauguration there was a fire at the New England landfill site, three months down the line there was another fire.
“The entire country, the economy of the country came to a standstill when the N3 people could not drive through Peter Brown and Market Road. Traffic on the N3 had to be stopped for the day, disturbing everything in South Africa."
