ST. PAUL, Tx \u2014 Recent heavy rain in San Patricio County is once again raising flooding concerns for one St. Paul homeowner who says drainage problems are leaving her property underwater.<\/p>\n
Crissie Godines said heavy rain over the past week flooded parts of her property and exposed what she believes is a drainage issue near her home.<\/p>\n
St. Paul homeowner says drainage problem is to blame for flooding that keeps returning to her property<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s supposed to be a ditch here, but it\u2019s covered, and it flows back into the land, so it\u2019s not ever going to come out unless we pump it out,\u201d Godines said.<\/p>\n
Godines, who has lived in the area for two years, said she has spent sleepless nights trying to find a solution.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then as soon as it starts going down, it\u2019s going to stay in the ditch,\u201d Godines said. \u201cWe have to pump it out from there into the ditch until it flows out, but I\u2019ve got to go and clean the ditches to make sure it goes through.\u201d<\/p>\n
The recent early Wednesday morning rain caused the water to rise again. Godines said the flooding was severe enough that she had to use a truck to access parts of the property. The water reached about mid-calf on a person standing 5 feet, 4 inches tall.<\/p>\n
Godines said the situation has taken both a physical and emotional toll.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was the one out there raking them through the rain, through whatever it was, having to clean them to make sure the flow was going. And it shouldn\u2019t be me doing that,\u201d Godines said.<\/p>\n
Ruben Gonzalez said county officials are aware of the concerns and have been working with the drainage district to improve water flow in the area.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe drainage district\u2019s been out there. This year, they\u2019ve been cutting and opening up waterways. We\u2019ve got some big grants that we\u2019ve received for the county that we\u2019re also going to use to open up other areas and make sure the drainage is flowing properly,\u201d Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n
Gonzalez added that the issue also involves the Texas Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n
Michael Vanecek with the San Patricio County Drainage District said the district does not have easements in the area.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the county commissioner\u2019s right of way, so we help when we can, but like I said, we don\u2019t have any easements on the county road right of way,\u201d Vanecek said.<\/p>\n
For Godines, she has been dealing with the flooding the best she can while hoping for a long-term solution.<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody knows what you\u2019re going through unless you\u2019re dealing with it as well. It\u2019s been tough. It\u2019s been hard,\u201d Godines said.<\/p>\n
San Patricio County Drainage officials said they plan to return to the property with other officials once the water recedes to assess possible solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PAUL, Tx \u2014 Recent heavy rain in San Patricio County is once again raising flooding concerns for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,112418,112419,32300,112420,112421,112422,112423,10873,112424,112425],"class_list":["post-312007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-crissie-godines","tag-michael-vanecek","tag-ruben-gonzalez","tag-san-patricio-county-commissioner-precinct-3","tag-san-patricio-county-drainage","tag-south-texas-rain-flooding","tag-st-paul-texas-flooding","tag-stephanie-molina","tag-texas-flood-drainage-problems","tag-txdot-drainage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}