WPTV is looking into drainage and septic issues on the Treasure Coast.<\/p>\n
Neighbor Daniel Fletchall reached out to our news team about septic issues in his community on Northwest Sunset Boulevard in Jensen Beach.<\/p>\n
WATCH BELOW: ‘I’m forced to live in this filth’: Neighbors demand septic solution<\/p>\n
Fletchall said after a heavy rain, he and his neighbors’ septic backs up and comes up into their yards<\/p>\n
“The sewage water from the septic tank will actually make its way up out of the tank and into my yard,” said Fletchall. “It smells back here, and I can’t let my dog out.”<\/p>\n
Fletchall said they can’t even flush their toilets for days.<\/p>\n
“I got to go down to Home Depot or go to the mall to use the bathroom,” said Fletchall.<\/p>\n
Fletchall added he can’t shower or wash his clothes.<\/p>\n
“Thankfully, my parents live nearby, so I can go take a shower,” said Fletchall. “But it’s just not happening here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fletchall isn’t the only one affected by this issue.<\/p>\n
Neighbors like Christie Berger are also having septic issues every time there’s heavy rain.<\/p>\n
“I go to McDonald’s to use the bathroom if I have to,” Berger said.<\/p>\n
Neighbor Rachelle Kukan said it’s becoming unacceptable.<\/p>\n
“I wish I could just kind of pick up and move because this is such a problem and it’s so serious to me that I would leave if I could,” said Kukan.<\/p>\n
Fletchall said he had septic companies come out to fix the drainage in his yard.<\/p>\n
Elevating the septic tank, Fletchall said, would be costly, and even then he’s been told it might not solve the problem.<\/p>\n
Fletchall said he’d like the Martin County staff to extend the sewer lines into his neighborhood.<\/p>\n
“I’m forced to live in this filth, and I still pay the taxes every year to have things done around the county, but I\u2019m not getting any help here,” said Fletchall.<\/p>\n
WPTV reached out to Martin County about any solutions.<\/p>\n
Staff said the neighborhood on Northwest Sunset Boulevard is on the list to get septic-to-sewer conversions, but no date has been set yet.<\/p>\n
Staff said they’re looking at ways to potentially move the neighborhood up on the list of systems to convert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WPTV is looking into drainage and septic issues on the Treasure Coast. Neighbor Daniel Fletchall reached out to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-417563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417563","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=417563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}