FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. \u2013 FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. \u2014 A water main break Saturday morning in Oakland County flooded streets and basements, forcing some residents to evacuate and leaving others to assess heavy damage to homes and personal belongings.<\/p>\n
Residents said police woke them in the early hours as water from a failed main surged into neighborhoods near 14 Mile Road at Verona.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean it was a crazy experience. Honestly we woke up at 4 in the morning to the police telling us we need to get out of the house. The house is flooding and we just got to evacuate,\u201d said Evan Thomas. <\/p>\n
Authorities said the break involved a massive water main associated with the Great Lakes Water Authority. <\/p>\n
Neighbors described mounting frustration as water threatened recent repairs and renovations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re pretty upset because we just had our basement redone and as the water grows, we\u2019re thinking it might affect all the work we had done,\u201d said Jeffrey Olstein.<\/p>\n
According to the Farmington Hills Superintendent of Public Works, this isn\u2019t the first time the water main has failed. <\/p>\n
\u201cI know our engineering team and our team is looking into it. The public works side, we\u2019re not as involved with the water main side as it related to that, but I know our team is looking into it,\u201d said Derrick Schueller, Farmington Hills Superintendent of Public Works. <\/p>\n
Homeowners pressed for quick answers and action as they made emergency plans for the coming hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey need to get it under control,\u201d said Thomas. <\/p>\n
Copyright 2026 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. \u2013 FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. \u2014 A water main break Saturday morning in Oakland County flooded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[10975,143,904,145,144],"class_list":["post-209541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-farmington-hills","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}