NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — In Norfolk’s Young Terrace public housing community, families, some with young children, say plumbing problems have jeopardized their lives.
“I want to say November, December or January, we had a horrible flood up here,” a woman told 10 On Your Side. She didn’t want her name and face used for the story and spoke from the driver’s seat of her car. “It was getting to the point where some of our neighbors were putting bags on her feet.”
Said another woman: “Let me tell you something. This sewage is terrible. It’d be flooding. The showers would be stopping, turning cold, [expletive] everywhere.”
In the 400 block of Nicholson Street, residents said hay covers a contamination site. Another resident took pictures of what she describes as a moat of human waste, toilet paper and waste water…