Hunter Water stops collecting money to pay for sewage connections despite Hexham and two other areas still unsewered

January 16 2021 - 5:30am
Rita Grima on Thursday, looking down on one of the two septic tanks in her yard. This week's photos by the Herald's Max Mason-Hubers. Photos of flooding in April 2015 by Kim Hewitt.

FOR as long as they can remember, the residents of the Pacific Highway hamlet of Hexham have been waiting for the sort of mains sewerage system that the rest of Newcastle's suburbs take for granted.

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