‘We had up to 40 inches of water’: Antique company blames flood damage on neighboring wall

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — Sylvan Brandt Antique flooring, a business based in Lititz in Lancaster County, has been facing flooding challenges after numerous storms continue to sweep through Central Pennsylvania, but Tyler Hollinger, who co-runs the business with his father-in-law, said his neighbor’s stone wall is to blame.

“This wall makes no sense to us in a sense that we feel like neighbors and business owners should work together to help each other’s businesses, that’s the beauty of the American mindset,” said Hollinger.

The antique flooring business is known for making reclaimed wood from salvaged barn materials and is located in an old quarry, but Hollinger said although quarry properties are known to hold run off water, he said the flooding got worse when Warwick Township allowed the business next door, JP Rollins & Sons to build a concrete wall…

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