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San Antonio: New Homes Flooding Again |
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Tuesday, 24 July 2007 |
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Residents Flooded Out Of Homes
Residents of a Lackland Heights neighborhood said they have been flooded out of their homes for the third time in a month. Meanwhile, officials and a homebuilder company are blaming each other for the problem, residents said. Lackland Heights residents said they're frustrated that they have lived in their homes for less than six months and their homes have been flooded several times.
Residents Flooded Out Of Homes
July 24, 2007
View Video: Tim Gerber Reporting
SAN ANTONIO -- Residents of a Lackland Heights neighborhood said they have been flooded out of their homes for the third time in a month.
Meanwhile, officials and a homebuilder company are blaming each other for the problem, residents said.
Heavy rains flooded homes in a new West Side Subdivision for the third time in a month on Monday.
Lackland Heights residents said they're frustrated that they have lived in their homes for less than six months and their homes have been flooded several times.
"It's very frustrating, it's almost to the point of why even clean up?" Ralph Del Toro said. Del Toro said he was cleaning up water damage at his home in the 6600 block of Cougar Village caused by an overnight storm, when his back fence was knocked over by a wall of water coming across Medina Base Road.
"Once the fence came down, the water rushed right in," Del Toro said.
This isn't the first time Del Toro's home was flooded.
San Antonio firefighters rescued his wife Elisa Del Toro and her son, Yestin, when flood waters rushed into their home from the back yard on June 28.
About 12 homes were also flooded on that day.
Del Toro said he's also frustrated that no one is accepting responsibility for the flooding problems.
The San Antonio Public Works department, which dug trenches in an effort to keep the water from flooding the homes, blames Main Street Homes for not including adequate drainage in the neighborhood, Del Toro said.
In a letter obtained by KSAT 12 News, Main Street Homes blames the city by stating that city official have known problems existed even before they approved the development.
"It's a bunch of finger-pointing, city blaming Main Street, Main Street blaming the city and it's just going back and forth," Del Toro said. "Unfortunately, we're just caught in the middle."
Evan Falat said he began alerting Main Street Homes about water accumulating near his home last December.
Falat said the homebuilders told him not to worry, but now that's all he does.
"It's one of those things," Falat said. "You don't know how long you're able to be gone from the house without worrying, 'What if this time really is the worst of all.'"
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