Residents in Middlesex say continued erosion from rainfall means their homes are on the brink of falling into a nearby brook.
Residents in Middlesex County say chunks of their home's properties are in danger of collapsing whenever a storm hits. FOX 5 NY spoke with one of the families.Ken and Kelly Beck are living on the brink of disaster, literally. With every heavy rainfall, chunks of their property collapse down to the brook below.
They say 40 feet of the land behind their home has already eroded and the situation is the same for several of their neighbors on Heather Lane in Middlesex Borough, where officials expect the houses to crash down into the creek - imminently. "I live in fear every day. I really do." Kelly Beck said. "Especially when we when I hear that two inches or more of rain is coming, and we're going to lose more and more property. And it's almost waiting. We're waiting for a catastrophe to happen over here."
The Becks say the issue began with Hurricane Ida. And got worse when a pump station and a flood wall were built upstream by the federal government which they say intensified the flow of the brook hitting their cul-de-sac. The wall they say stops 200 feet from their home and is essentially washing their property away.Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman secured the funds for the flood wall and tells FOX 5 NY that Heather Lane is outside the scope of the project.
"Either one or two places is either the federal government or its or the state government. And so we are trying to explore with both levels of government the kinds of resources that might exist." Watson Coleman told FOX 5 NY. All the news you need to know, every day
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