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Cape Coral Residents Struggling with Longtime Flooding Issues in Neighborhood

Information from ABC-7.com. Image from Fox 4 News After experiencing 15 years of terrible flooding, a Cape Coral man has taken matters into his own hands, according to ABC 7. Cape Coral residents near Diplomat and Santa Barbara Boulevard typically deal with terrible flooding through their neighborhoods. A lot of the time, water goes halfway up the driveway. “At this point, I’ve just lived with it for so long that it’s just so normal for me,” longtime resident Randy Redecker said. He has lived in his home for about 15 years. “This has been happening since the day we moved in,” Redecker said. But there has been one major issue. “That’s when we did this,” Redecker said. “Which you are going to want to come across here.” The constant flooding in his front yard. “Put my pump in here and I got a 100-foot hose which runs all the way as far as I can down,” he said. He is onto his third pump. Flooding has ruined the others. The pump pushes water through a trench he has dug and then goes into a nearby drain. But he said debris blocks the way, which causes some of the floodings. “This is nothing, this is pumping it out about six times,” he said. He said this past Sunday, the flooding was to the back tire of his car. Even when it is not raining, he pumps water out. “Our trash day is Friday. In Friday, I literally have to drain this out, I have to come out here, I have to plug it in, and it takes about 30 to 40 minutes to drain it out just so I can get my trash cans out,” he said. Years ago, he said the City of Cape Coral came to regrade the ditch running from his property to a culvert, and it worked great. Since then, it has gotten bad again. He said the city will not help. “Even if they came to clean them up every once in a while, that would be helpful,” he said. He said they tell him the cost will need to come out of his wallet, and he is fed up. “At that point, you know, we are really looking at possibly getting out of our house,” Redecker said. He hopes the city will consider regrading again and trimming back trees to lessen the flooding.