JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. \u2014 A resident is speaking out about the ongoing flooding issues on 1st Street North in Jax Beach.<\/p>\n
Beth Acheson says she\u2019s lived in her home here for over 50 years, and water drainage has been a problem on her street for a long time.<\/p>\n
We first spoke to Acheson last July<\/a> over the same flooding issues she\u2019s facing today.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople were flying through here, and the waves were going up in our doors,\u201d Acheson said.<\/p>\n >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n After a storm hit Jax Beach on Wednesday, she says the flooding was up to the curb.<\/p>\n Acheson said after our coverage, the city hired an outside contractor from St. Augustine to fix some of the drains along the street. She says it helped, but the outflow drain is still buried by the sand dunes.<\/p>\n \u201cYou want to buy a house, but you\u2019re sitting in a lake of water that the city can\u2019t do anything about it, and you have to take a boat to your vehicle, because the city won\u2019t fix the draining,\u201d Acheson said.<\/p>\n Acheson says a hole on the beach in front of her house has been there for about two years. But after she showed Action News Jax, she noticed the hole had been widened enough for water to, hopefully, flow back into the ocean.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s actually water in the hole now, but in the future, beach-goers are going to use that as a play area, and they\u2019re going to bury it again,\u201d Acheson said.<\/p>\n We reached out to the city\u2019s public works department, and they informed us that this hole is a buried outfall that was uncovered after Wednesday\u2019s storm.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n In a statement from Jax Beach City Mayor Chris Hoffman, she wrote, \u201cStormwater drainage is a challenge that our city is constantly working to improve. We had massively heavy rains yesterday morning that put a lot of water into our system, but everything worked as it should.\u201d<\/p>\n Acheson says she\u2019s grateful for the steps made by the city, but the real test will come after the rain our First Alert Weather Team is tracking this upcoming weekend.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll see from here if they\u2019re finding a solution that makes it safe for the beach goers and that our places don\u2019t get flooded every day,\u201d Acheson said.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. \u2014 A resident is speaking out about the ongoing flooding issues on 1st Street North…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[86079,129111,982,129112,88568,129114,969,15388,129113,116,118,117,5729,634,1375,129110],"class_list":["post-309469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-1st_street","tag-acheson","tag-action_news","tag-beth_acheson","tag-casey_stone","tag-chris_hoffman","tag-jack","tag-jacks_beach","tag-jacks_beach_city","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville_beach","tag-local","tag-mayor","tag-new_us_6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}