CFL DRI - Sanitation - Sewer Systems

By Martin E. Comas Orlando Sentinel

On most summer mornings — especially on days after a heavy downpour — Ernest Brown must slip into rubber boots to retrieve his newspaper at the end of a flooded driveway.

He and other residents of Seminole County’s historic Midway neighborhood say the standing rainwater in their streets, yards and ditches is the result of years of the county’s failure to upgrade the drainage system, along with the construction of new homes on old farmland surrounding their neighborhood that has sent stormwater flowing into their community.

“Imagine Midway as a bowl,” resident Emory Green Jr. said. “And as you have construction around Midway, all that water has nowhere to go but to drain into Midway. That’s the problem we have in Midway ... The Midway community should have an upgraded stormwater system and a sewer system.”