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Residents in Birmingham’s Oxmoor community continue to battle significant flooding issues. This comes after a subdivision was built above an existing neighborhood.
The neighbors say a drain at the top of a hill of the development was not properly installed. They have been in a battle with the City of Birmingham and the developer of Pine Ridge Estates for over 20 years while they continue to deal with the effects of it.
Gwen Lewis is just one of the neighbors on Ostlin Street who says she continues to deal with the impact. Her driveway is immediately at the bottom of Pretoria Street. We first met her in 2021.
“Every time it rains real, real bad, it comes into my house,” Lewis said. “Water, water, water just sweepin, sweepin, sweepin and it’s still filling up faster than I can sweep.”
She sent us a video showing when it rains, the road quickly turns into a river.
Josephine Williams was the first one to call us about this. You can see the rust on the bottom of her front door and wooden cross ties warped in front of her home she uses to keep water out.