In St. Lucie County, neighborhoods of Lakewood Park and White City were slammed with 3 to 6 inches of rainfall Thursday evening , inundating roads and neighborhoods in just a few hours.
Many of you reached out to us concerned your drainage systems weren’t doing the job.
“It was intense,” said resident Jim Archer. “It just poured, rained really hard. The water was up the road — all over the place and park.”
“The swales throughout Lakewood Park are now full and there is no drainage happening because the pumps aren’t running,” wrote another resident in an email to WPTV. “Perhaps WPTV can look into this issue and get some answers.”
We took those concerns to County Commissioner Cathy Townsend, who told us the community’s pump was indeed not running until well after rainfall started dumping on the area.
“The county did fail. The county failed at that point, the pump should have been on yesterday morning,” said Townsend.
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