{"id":292787,"date":"2026-02-20T03:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/292787\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T03:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:52:11","slug":"wellington-resident-horrified-after-raw-sewage-exploded-from-his-toilet-hit-the-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/292787\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington resident horrified after raw sewage \u2018exploded\u2019 from his toilet, hit the ceiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">He said it had rendered the bathroom unusable, and the smell made it difficult to be in his home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cParticles of poop everywhere &#8230; it\u2019s soaked into the towels, it\u2019s on everything on the walls, our toilet itself is in a state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI feel disgusting, because the house stinks of poop. It\u2019s given me a bit of a headache.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">Ed said that he immediately rang his neighbour and heard that the same thing had happened to them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">He said they encountered the workers on their street and saw that several other residents had been out to speak with them as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">The workers gave Ed a phone number and a reference for a cleaning job, but he said neither number worked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">His attempts to contact the council also didn\u2019t seem successful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">However, cleaners came to fix his place up last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">Ed\u2019s home is roughly two kilometres away from the Moa Point Wastewater Treatment Plant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">Wellington Water and Wellington City Council have been contacted for a response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">If you\u2019ve also been affected contact Kaya.Selby@rnz.co.nz<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">-RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said it had rendered the bathroom unusable, and the smell made it difficult to be in his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,72088,86608,71,293,3594,37772,149194,111,43,139,69,91143,10710,149195,42308,223,29889,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-292787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-ceiling","10":"tag-exploded","11":"tag-from","12":"tag-his","13":"tag-hit","14":"tag-horrified","15":"tag-kaya","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-raw","21":"tag-resident","22":"tag-selby","23":"tag-sewage","24":"tag-the","25":"tag-toilet","26":"tag-wellington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}