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Article Courtesy of NBC 2
News Coral Gables
By
Elisia Alonso
Published June 7, 2023
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Barbara Tomlinson, who lives on SE 14th Street, watched as stormwater took over
her lawn on Tuesday.
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“I don’t need to have flood insurance, you know, and that’s
another thing that I’m concerned about if this continues on.
Am I now going to have to get flood insurance?” said
Tomlinson.
Tomlinson said construction crews finished up work last week
on a new build across the street.
She says they dug the drainage ditch too deep and are not
able to reach neighboring drains.
“Where the water runs off – it’s running off their property
out of their big pipe onto my property. Nobody else got it
but me,” said Tomlinson.
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It’s not just her home Tomlinson is worried about; burrowing owls have made
homes near the problem area.
“It’s a fairly new family in that one. They just had their little babies, so I
am concerned about them,” said Tomlinson.
With many new builds happening in the Cape, she is worried this could happen to
more people.
“I don’t know who I’m supposed to contact to see if I can have this corrected
before something happens and if there’s anybody else having this issue. I want
to get some information out there so we all know what to do,” said Tomlinson.
The city asked anyone experiencing stormwater issues to report them by calling
311.
Officials said in most cases, responsibility for drainage issues falls on the
property owner where the problems are coming from.
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