Saturday, October 30, 2010

SMALL LAKE AT FOURWAYS SHOPPING MALL

At about 11:00h today, cup final day!, I received a desperate call from Cathy, the owner of the Clapham Club, a night club in the Fourways Shopping Mall, Sandton, Johannesburg:
  • there is smallish feature lake outside their door and their outside patio and entertainment area
  • the aeration fountains in the lake no longer work
  • over the past few weeks there have been some sewerage spills into the feature
  • the stench is unbelievable; last night the club had to close it's windows and doors but many patrons left, the other restaurants situated on the banks of the lake also had to shut doors
  • tonight the Club is hosting a huge Halloween Party, they were in trouble

Man it was Cup Final Day; I could not convince them to change the theme of the party to something like "living amongst the rotting dead" or "dancing with the dead's rotting remains" so:

  • I had no option but to endeavour to bale them out
  • loaded the rubber duck and equipment together with 80 litres of EMgro SAEM and set out for the Lake
  • equipment and helper on hand we arrived at the facility at about 15:30h
  • we spread the EMgro SAEM over about three quarters of the lake, our hose was too short to do the rest
  • patrons of the Virgin Active Gym, who need to walk past the feature to enter and exit the Gym, many if not all stopped to find out what we were putting into the water? They already noticed a huge difference in the smell from the time that they arrived.

I must stress that EMgro SAEM is not a quick fix! What we did today, at a minimal cost, should keep the area free of foul odours a period, but not solve the problem.

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