DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — People living in a Daytona Beach neighborhood said every time it rains hard, their properties flood.
Channel 9 was there in 2009 when a storm damaged homes and flooded roads around Daytona Beach’s Midtown neighborhood.
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We were back in 2014 when it flooded again and again in 2019.
City leaders said floods have caused more than $100 million worth of damage over the years, impacting more than 800 properties.
Now there may be relief coming.
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The city is trying to work with the federal government to fix the issue.
Whenever there is heavy rain, it washes out the road, floods people’s homes and can take days to recede.
People living there said something needs to be done about it.
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Barry Powell shared pictures with Channel 9 reporter Mike Springer from October when heavy rains flooded the road and brought water up to the door of his Maley Street home.
“We just hold our breath because we are like, wow, we don’t know what’s going to happen,” Powell said.
Channel 9 was in the neighborhood in 2019 when the heavy rains flooded out Ken Staller’s home.
“I now have my own lake in the backyard,” Staller said.
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Eyewitness News was also there in 2009 when rescue crews drove through flooded roads to get to people stranded in their homes without food and other necessities.
“I didn’t know Daytona could get as bad as this,” one woman said.
The city is working with Congressman Michael Waltz’s office to advocate funding for the Army Corps of Engineers to do a feasibility study on diverting water from the canals to a pond at a golf course.
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Government officials said the project would provide flooding relief for eastern Volusia County, including Daytona Beach, Holly Hill and Ormond Beach to the north and South Daytona and Port Orange to the south.
People living in the neighborhood said they just want to see something done.
“The main thing is just following through, and if they are going to do that, I think it’s going to be very positive for us, but we do need a change. We need it now,” Powell said.
It is a change people in the neighborhood have been waiting decades to see.
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If the funding for the study does get approved, it will take about $3 million and three years to complete the study.
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