“Water does not move. The drainage sits. That water stands,” said Shannon Blankenship, an Avondale homeowner and the executive director of Riverside Avondale Preservation.
Homeowners say an aging infrastructure is causing that area to continue flooding pretty badly.
City officials tell News4Jax they are aware of the problem and are doing something about it, but homeowners say the city’s solution does not appear to be working. “In some cases, it was storm cloud that didn’t show up on weather radar. It was just this deluge that came down, and here we were 10 minutes later with water up to the third step of my house,” Kelly said.
“What we’re experiencing here is more than just a simple fix at the high school in terms of the Willow Branch drainage. It’s not getting to Willow Branch because it’s clogged here,” Kelly said.
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