Late public comment Philly Lane flooding
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Uh before we go on to the next item, I'm going to um Open public comment back up for one person that had called in that wants to come speak to us and we'll do that and then we'll get right back on um On the regular items, so What's the lady's name? Uh no. Is it Mrs. Stour or? Stoyer. Stour. Okay.
So I got help out. Um you guys probably know what I'm coming here to talk about.
No name and address.
Uh Tanya Salier, [address removed].
Okay.
Um after about a week or so of rain, uh effectively uh the road is mostly clear. Uh we still have a tremendous amount of water overflowing out of the swamps. Um if you guys have been out there you know that. Um Mother Nature managed to clear up a lot of the flooding before you guys made a decision on what to do. Just because the water is dry does not mean we don't have a problem anymore. We've began
counting the can the county in April of this last year for this last round of flooding, and our emails and phone calls have gone unanswered. I've emailed just about everybody who I could find, including Mr. Mariano and Mr. Carlos. Barbella. And I I have no idea what you guys are doing about it. Absolutely none. Our vehicles have suffered damage. Our neighbors still having to park across the street in order to get to their house. We
have suffered damage to our driveways and our yards do remain flooded. One of my neighbors cannot get to his livestock.
I don't want to be doing this again next summer. This is not the highlight of my month, put it that way. Um I'd like to know what the county is doing and what the next step is and why we aren't being treated like other communities in Pasco County. Um, I'd like to know what happened to all of the promises that were made. Um I have multiple emails that uh dating back to 2019 that were promising you guys would do something and nothing was ever done. In 2019
the flooding cleared up on its own uh as it does once we start hitting a more sunny period. I would like to know what can be done so this doesn't happen again. And that um I'm sorry for interrupting and uh I decided to make it really, really brief this time. Um you guys have a wonderful day.
All right. Thank you. Comments.
Mr. Allen? Yes. And you know, we've talked about this. We are doing a study in the area. It takes time to go through. We've been out there, staff's done a lot of work out there. Hasn't been to this satisfaction as far as pumping in some areas where we say we can't pump or not. But uh maybe if you would before you leave Mike Carbella and the team, maybe you sit down and review what we have what we are doing, what we have done, we plan to do. Thank you. Okay.
Commissioner Oakley. of the houses are there?
It's very low and it's the bottom of a basin that the water goes there. I mean we years ago we first when I first got elected in 2004 when the hurricanes were going on, they were actually pumping on Philly Lane up the hill. And the water would come right back downhill. So it's a challenge. It is a challenge. We're working on it, but it's gonna take a while to study it to find out what's the best long term thing to get the water to go. And some beers it's not gonna go. But staff can staff is staff will be happy to talk with you and show you exactly what we're doing.