Naxxar sewage blockage spread to Qormi

Ludwig Flask

Jul 17th 2009, 19:18

He the guys in the picture deserve an extra month paid up leave, extra bonus, danger money, paid up life insurance, but most RESPECT! If they don't know the potenial hazard of the mess they worked in, at least the management could have taken some measures, or... Health & Safety bla bla bla... Even Unions didn't speak up on this issue, less any other TAX supported authority! Shame!

John Pace

Jul 17th 2009, 18:28

Is WSC sure this was not sabotage??? Seeing the extent of the damages and the financial losses sustained during the summer months, I believe that a deeper investigation into the causes and the perpatrators of this ought to be carried out.

M Gauci

Jul 17th 2009, 16:14

Disinfecting the streets when the uncovered face, hands shout loud from the photo!!

Unbelievable.

Joe Borg

Jul 17th 2009, 08:57

why are the workers not wearing proper protection?!! I know it's very hot outside but they should be wearing sanitation suits with an emergency gas mask on the ready.

It's astounding that we are little different then india and how it treats one of the lowest castes of the untouchables … the sewer workers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7872770.stm

seems like we forgot the case of the three workers who died a few summers ago…

Dennis Debono

Jul 17th 2009, 08:17

Can anyone understand why these men are allowed to work without gloves in these situations?
DISGUSTING

Tonio Mercieca

Jul 16th 2009, 12:50

Recently it has become mandatory for farm manure especially cow dung to be collected by bowser and dumped into specified sites in the main sewer.

As rightly mentioned the use of suction bowsers to empty the cesspit at the farm allows all sorts of material to be collected. It is a known fact that cows tend to eat less in hot weather and so most straw ends up as manure without it passing through the animal's digestive system with all the consequences that this creates. I see no link between the Qormi and Naxxar incidents as, as far as logic permits Naxxar sewage does not pass through Qormi, but then the WSC knows better!! The only link could be that the sewer system was not designed to take whole straw, and some changes need to be made.

I can not understand how nobody has considered converting this manure into energy. I have seen such home made biomass energy converters when I visited India way back in 1982!! I am not suggesting that we start experimenting in an amaturish way as we might blow up a few properties, but on a National scale WSC or Wasteserv should look into it.

Pierre Micallef Grimaud

Jul 15th 2009, 18:04

@ victor vella. The place you mentioned at Pieta' is the restaurant's cesspit. The bowser collects sewer and not deposits it there.

martin saliba

Jul 15th 2009, 17:45

@ WSC. Try a little harder to find where the straw and manure came from. If you can't pay me and i will give it a try and probbly will sucssed. Surley its and open and close case.

A Vella

Jul 15th 2009, 16:18

Come on Naxxar sewage was blocked by straws and manure. Even the smell can tell that. We had to close our window and get out of our houses that's how how strong the smell was.

B Zammit

Jul 15th 2009, 16:12

@ Victor Vella

You asked why? Simple - some people are uneducated that's why. It does not even cross their mind that they are doing something wrong.

victor vella

Jul 15th 2009, 15:50

It is a well known fact that sucktion bowsers colect all kinds of stone and material from the cesspits they go to clean, they are also used to clear blockages, now why was such a bowser emptying it's load near the new restaurant at San Masion this week?