Punta Gorda moves ahead with downtown drainage study

The City of Punta Gorda is moving forward with a $744,995 study to evaluate flooding in its downtown and find long-term solutions.

For residents like Ninette Warren, who lives in the city’s historic district, the damage from flooding during last year’s hurricanes is still keeping her out of her home.

Watch Fox 4’s Alex Orenczuk report on the flood study:

Punta Gorda moves ahead with downtown drainage study

“It’s a 1910 cottage, so all the walls are original, all the ceilings are original,” Warren said. “Helene was 19 inches in the house and then Milton was 31.”…

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