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Published: December 20, 2007, 09:55

Filthy business: Caught on camera

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Watch how sewage tankers are making a fortune by dumping raw sewage down the closest storm drain. Photographs from video shot using night-vision enhancement.


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Spotlight
At around 2am on Tuesday, the XPRESS team along with Municipality officers, spot a tanker ‘in the act’. The driver parks the car over the storm drain and acts as a lookout.


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In the act
The driver’s partner then removes the drain cover and opens the valve to discharge the sewage. He remains close to the valve, ready to cover it at the first signal from the driver.


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Nabbing the culprit
Municipality officers nab the culprits, confiscate their driving licence, document the entire scene and then proceed along with the XPRESS team to check the storm drains again.


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Stinking filth
They discover that the once dry roads are soaked in raw sewage. As they come back on Road 318, they find a portion of it completely submerged in filth.


 
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