The question of who bears responsibility for the damage from catastrophic flooding in January 2024 continues to play out in complex litigation — with the city of San Diego continuing to argue that local residents and companies should have done more to maintain storm channels.
The city has now filed more than 20 cross-complaints against more than a dozen parties, including at least two flood victims, maintaining that they were responsible for drainage on their properties or took steps that could have increased storm runoff.
“These third parties either own, maintain or control private drainage facilities that connect into the city’s infrastructure or they have otherwise obstructed the city’s facilities or developed their property in such a way as to overwhelm the city’s existing infrastructure,” the City Attorney’s Office said…