of RNZ<\/a><\/p>\nEd, a Miramar resident who doesn’t want his surname used, told RNZ it happened on on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
“I’d heard some gurgling in the pipe system, and as I opened the door to the bathroom, a little fountain of raw sewage was exploding out of our toilet, so much so it was reaching the ceiling,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It’s covered every surface in our bathroom, just particles of raw sewage everywhere.”<\/p>\n
He said it had rendered the bathroom unusable, and the smell made it difficult to be in his home.<\/p>\n
“Particles of poop everywhere… it’s soaked into the towels, it’s on everything on the walls, our toilet itself is in a state.<\/p>\n
“I feel disgusting, because the house stinks of poop. It’s given me a bit of a headache.”<\/p>\n
Ed said that he immediately rang his neighbour and heard that the same thing had happened to them.<\/p>\n
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
The workers gave Ed a phone number and a reference for a cleaning job, but he said neither number worked.<\/p>\n
His attempts to contact the council also didn’t seem successful.<\/p>\n
However, cleaners came to fix his place up last night.<\/p>\n
Ed’s home is roughly 2km away from the Moa Point Wastewater Treatment Plant.<\/p>\n
Wellington Water and Wellington City Council have been contacted for a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Wellington resident says sewage “exploded” out of his toilet while Wellington Water staff were working on his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-292789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories","14":"tag-wellington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292789","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=292789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}