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No sitting on the fence: estate beats municipality in war over river floods

DIS­AS­TER WAIT­ING TO HAP­PEN: A screen­grab from a video of the Feather­brooke es­tate flood in 2014, which washed away its bound­ary fence. Flood­ing this year has al­ready reached the fence, and the con­cern is that an­other big rain­storm will bring down the fence again.
DIS­AS­TER WAIT­ING TO HAP­PEN: A screen­grab from a video of the Feather­brooke es­tate flood in 2014, which washed away its bound­ary fence. Flood­ing this year has al­ready reached the fence, and the con­cern is that an­other big rain­storm will bring down the fence again.
Pic­ture: FEATHER­BROOKE ES­TATE

The upmarket Featherbrooke estate on Johannesburg’s West Rand has won a court round in a protracted fight with the local municipality over a river, a boundary fence and a storm water dr...