Residents of a prime Dubai residential property investment area are up in arms after sewage flooded part of the International City. Master developers Nakheel are working to correct the problem, which has seen the foul water spread to just a metre from the doors to homes in England cluster, according to Gulf News.
The site says a car park, roads and pavements are now underneath the mess with the summer heat attracting flies to the standing liquid. Dubai residents have blamed the planning behind the development for the crisis.
Quoted by Gulf News, a Nakheel spokesman said:
“A specialist team is currently working on measures to resolve a situation related to the sewage system at International City and we expect operations to normalise by the end of the week.
“In addition, design and supply waste water treatment company Metito was appointed in May to double the existing capacity of the sewage treatment plant located within the development and these works are also expected to be complete by the end of the week.”
Tankers are on site trying to pump out the waste, with motorists forced to drive through it. A comment left on the Gulf News website by PM Sudhakar said yoga classes in Persia Cluster had been cancelled due to the smell.
“Only when 60,000 people are living there do they they discover the [sewage] plant is less than half the size it should have been.”
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You can only imagine the smell with the heat out there, it must be awful. Imagine having to drive through it, yuck.