Green Country Neighborhood Faces Another Round Of Flooding

The heavy rain caused some flooding in a Broken Arrow neighborhood that flooded last year. Folks out there were hoping that time was on their side. It's been a year since the major flood last year.

Monday, May 7th 2007, 10:25 am

By: News On 6

The heavy rain caused some flooding in a Broken Arrow neighborhood that flooded last year. Folks out there were hoping that time was on their side. It's been a year since the major flood last year. Some work has been done on a retention pond and it might have helped. The News On 6â€™s Emory Bryan reports the problem Monday morning wasn't nearly as bad, but one home did have some inside damage.

Broken Arrow resident Jennifer Fountain had worried for a year that this would happen.

"It's been horribly frustrating, and there's nothing you can do about it except watch your home flood," said Fountain.

She has puddles in her living room and two other small rooms in her house. She moved what she could out of the way and thankfully, had not yet recarpeted after the flood last year.

This year the rain wasn't as heavy and for Fountain, the flooding wasn't as significant though she does have damage. This biggest difference is that this year she has flood insurance, and her neighbors do too. They all flooded last year.

"And for our homes back here, everybody says this will be forgotten, but for resale value, who is going to want it? Who is going to watch that every time?" said Broken Arrow resident Linda Potts.

The flood water washed through their yards, pushing a pool out of the way. The problem is their homes are at the low point of the neighborhood and the drains just can't handle the load. The mailboxes have a high water mark on them.

"We've been to every flood meeting and talked to the city people and they've been wonderful in doing this and that, but as far as any physical work we've only seen the retention pond cleaned out of the trees and that's still didn't help us today," said Fountain.

It was a frustrating day for these homeowners who hoped the problem would be fixed by now. We talked with the city Monday and there is a plan to enlarge this retention pond, making it more than twice as big. That and another project in the Steeplechase subdivision will add some capacity to the storm sewer system. The city believes that will help and maybe solve the problems.

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