The picture of Anthony Debias’ flooded house on the front page of the May 9 Independent showed more than the results of a big storm.
At Tuesday’s meeting of the Van Buren Township Board of Trustees, Township Supervisor Kevin McNamara said the picture in the Independent showed a big, big problem that he is working to address with Wayne County.
The flood that engulfed the Debias home on McBride and the house next door comes from a storm sewer that Wayne County says isn’t theirs, Supervisor McNamara said.
He said the county said the storm sewer is VBT’s, but the township doesn’t do storm sewers.
McNamara said the flooding came from a county sewer that the country refuses to acknowledge. When asked what is to keep the Debias home from flooding again, McNamara said, “Nothing.”
Another resident of McBride Ave., who didn’t flood, told the Independent the water came from the north and crossed Ayres. That’s in the area of the water tower.
McNamara said the 40 acres the township owns where the water tower stands on Tyler has drainage problems, as well, and is too wet to build anything there, like a proposed DPW building.
Let’s hope this drainage problems get settled before Anthony Debias has to bail out his house again.
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Devastated by the damage and out of pocket monies we have to try to come up with. Draining our retirement 401K rapidly. Were stuck between two that wont take any responsibility and just point finger at each other. Lived here since 1988 and NEVER had a problem. Paid money to have road paved in front of our house to become a disaster. THE drain between our and neighbors house was cover with a double type mesh and gravel. Told workers that were putting gravel along road it must be clear. Covered it anyway. Township workers pumped water for 14 hours. Really tried their best. My son went into over three foot of water and pulled the meshing off . He said it felt like a big vacuum sucking on his boots. The water was gone in 15 minutes. You THINK there was a problem? Looking at some legal action. Im sure it will be a uphill battle.