Four La Habra yards were flooded with mud and water after debris from a nearby homeless encampment clogged a storm drain during Tuesday’s rain.
“There was just a huge avalanche of mud, and it’s all because of the back railroad,” resident April Contreras said. “We have homeless encampments in the back. We have mattresses back there. We have junk that they’ve left back there.”
Contreras and her neighbors said the trash and furniture from the encampment have clogged the large drainage pipe for years. Their situation worsened after a wall by the pipe broke five years ago, causing rainwater and mud to spill onto their yards…