A child's sewage-soaked teddy bear lies amid plastic bottles and rotting waste, while an onshore breeze carries the stench of human excrement and rotten eggs to people gathered on the shore.
The lake’s problems accelerated in October after heavy rains caused blocked sewers to overflow into it.
People wanting to relax on the lake’s shores on weekends were being driven away by the stench, he added. The lake’s water was heavily tainted by metals such as iron, magnesium and manganese. This was the result of acid mine drainage seeping out from the closed gold mines in the area.
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