Students of the Matilda Newport Jr. High School in Monrovia last week resumed normal classes after they earlier left the school as a result of pollution.

The pollution disrupted normal academic activities for a week as a result of a strong odor from sewage line connected to the school edifice by the Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation.

Classes remained disrupted at the school for days as spill over of fasces from a dilapidated sewage line passing through the school's campus, increased.

The LWSC, following appeals from the Monrovia Consolidated School System, has addressed the problem, and normal classes are now going on.

Speaking to this Paper, the Vice Principal for student's Affairs, Mr. Jonathan Kollie, said the sewage line, which belongs to the LWSC, was installed to transport fasces to the near by septic tank.

He said the spill over was a result of heavy downpour of rain in recent time.

He said the line which is the main sewage line is connected to the school building and whenever it overflows it creates odor which is detrimental to human breathing.

"The main sewage line has been there for several years but any time it rains, the tank overflows, as a result the fasces from it can usually spread on the street to cause pollution," he stressed.

Nearly every year, the Newport Street Community can be the scene of overflowing human fasces, most especially during the raining season, making environment one of the dirtiest streets in terms of smell.

Mr. Kollie then called on the relevant authority to do a routine inspection of sewage line and public toilet to abort a repetition of such hazard in the future.