On a drizzling Tuesday morning a fortnight ago, Sherry woke up to the sight of flooding water in her three-bedroom bungalow house. That would have been normal if it were just rainwater, but this was sewage. She had forgotten to open up the manhole at the back of her house so that the sewage could run through her garden instead of running into her house, as is the norm whenever it rains. She normally opens up the manhole to prevent sewage water from the on-site treatment plant in her gated community, Green Park Estate in Athi River, from overflowing through her bathroom openings and into her house. “This is disgusting and embarrassing. I don’t think anyone who has bought a house for millions of shillings should have to go through this. It has been going on for years now. I couldn’t even invite my friends over when I first moved in. How would you explain to someone that the house you have just bought has foul smelling sewage coming through it, where your husband and your children eat and sleep?” she asks. Two of Sherry’s immediate neighbours share her agony. Their houses are at the lowest part of the development and the overflowing sewage from the on-site treatment plant finds its way into their houses when it rains. When it first happened, residents say the developer promised it wouldn’t happen again. He put up a generator that would stop the flowing of the sewage back to the homes, but for some reason, it never seems to be working whenever it rains, according to Sherry.
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The greenspan architect is stationed in britain. These should be problems coming out after the developer tries to cut costs by not involving registered kenyan architects in the supervision. There are also complaints about wall crackings. The walls are made of prefab fibre cement panels.

This is a very serious allegation. Can you provide more details pls eg what was dumped, quantity etc. As a responsible citizen, have you informed the authorities......and residents?

Just say it, the contractor was below par right? It has nothing to do with the architect

@a4architect.com how effective is the onsite sewer treatment plants for such large projects. I have been wondering how developers like Athiview in syokimau will cope with over 700 units once they complete their project!

So now even waste management is the work of the architect? So we should be blaming the architects in Nrb for the mess that is the sewerline? I always thot the work of the contractor is to assemble material and coordinate the workmanship of the project. So where do the contractors responsibility start and stop?

So is this to say that the system has not been working or maintainance is lacking?

Most of those houses there have septic tanks that have to be emptied surely no one gets to know when they are filled ama architect should be the one ringing the alarm bells to ask them to empty it?
All i see there is lack of maintainance

Where was WARMA when the houses went up less than 10yrs ago? This agency needs a makeover

The number of things that people suffer in this country that aren't their fault... Kulipwa watangoja sana