A young mother says she reported raw sewage leaking from a waste pipe inside a complex of flats six times in the last year. Courtney Lee, 23, says she has endured the stench from the pipe outside the front door of her Silverdale flat in Swinton, Salford, since she moved in four years ago, but still it hasn't been fixed.
She says she stepped up her bid to get the problem fixed with her housing association within the last year when ‘solid’ raw sewage started emanating from the pipe. Workers from landlord ForHousing have visited the two-storey block and put duct tape around the pipe to try to quell the flow of foul sewage, she added.
“It’s disgusting,” she told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS). “I’ve reported it repeatedly.
