ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Residents in the Harshaw Lake Park neighborhood in St. Petersburg, which lies in the Disston Heights area with an elevation up to 60 feet, have become increasingly concerned about flooding and stormwater system maintenance.
“We noticed this summer, we started to have heavy rain events, as we do every year in St. Pete,” said resident Heidi Stiller. “It just seemed that the water was coming up faster than it used to.”
Stiller believes that when Hurricane Milton blew through the area last October, the record rainfall, which sent nearly one inch of floodwater into her home, also clogged the storm drains and ditches. Milton dumped 18.3 inches of rain in St. Petersburg, according to the National Weather Service…