Dani Miskell joined the ABC 10News team as a multimedia journalist in Oct. 2023.
On Thursday, the City's Stormwater Division was seen in Southcrest removing plants, trash, and other debris from the storm channel that Beta Street dead ends on.In January, the same storm channel flooded surrounding homes, destroying many Southcrest resident's property.That same storm channel, which the City refers to as the Alpha One Channel, is the same one that Southcrest residents tell ABC 10News they begged the City to clear out for years.
'The City said this preparation work is coming ahead of the rainy season. ABC 10News spoke with a Southcrest resident who lives a stone's throw from the job site about the stormwater channel maintenance.Lucia Rios' home was flooded back in January. Rios said looking at the job site, she still doesn't feel reassured that her home won't be destroyed by flooding again.'The whole thing needs to be clean for us to be safe,' Rios said.
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