{"id":47842,"date":"2024-07-17T01:39:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T05:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=47842"},"modified":"2024-07-17T01:39:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T05:39:44","slug":"lakeland-mhp-community-continues-to-flood-and-neighbors-are-asking-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/07\/17\/lakeland-mhp-community-continues-to-flood-and-neighbors-are-asking-for-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland MHP community continues to flood and neighbors are asking for help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Four times in eight days. That\u2019s how many times a Lakeland mobile home park has flooded recently, according to a group of neighbors that includes Carol Coy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s so hard to see this,\u201d said Coy. \u201cThis has been one of the most frustrating things I think I\u2019ve ever been through.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coy and the others live at Citrus Center Colony, a 55-and-older mobile home community off W. Beacon Road in Lakeland. She and other neighbors say the community has flooded repeatedly over the years, even after routine afternoon showers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During one rainstorm last June, floodwater seeped into the home of Coy\u2019s 73-year-old neighbor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI walked over to her house just to see if I could take her blood pressure because she was screaming she was so upset,\u201d she remembered. \u201cSeeing what some of the elderly have gone through, I guess that\u2019s what\u2019s been the most upsetting thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past eight days, there have been four more rounds of localized flooding in low spots of the mobile home park: Monday, July 8; Friday, July 12; Sunday, July 14; and Tuesday, July 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neighbors at Citrus Center Colony continue to contact ABC Action News seeking help. They want a meeting with the mobile home park\u2019s management, Bedrock Communities; they want some of the lowest-lying neighbors relocated; and they want Bedrock to fix the infrastructure problems that they think are causing the flooding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey need to put bigger pipes in here so that the water flows, so that it doesn\u2019t back up in the middle of the street here,\u201d Coy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multiple emails and multiple phone calls to Bedrock Communities seeking answers. So far, the company has not responded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Kevin Cook, a spokesperson for the City of Lakeland, Citrus Center Colony was built in the 1950s before many modern-day stormwater infrastructure requirements were in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs private property, the park would need to build its own retention ponds and stormwater collection. Unfortunately, when the mobile home park was created there weren’t stormwater systems that we have today and there were no requirements. Today, the development would be required to include stormwater infrastructure,\u201d Cook wrote, in part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe mobile home park owners are responsible for managing the stormwater in the park,\u201d Cook continued. \u201cBased on the repeated flooding incidents, the current system is either undersized and\/or there are blockages causing the lack of proper drainage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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