HOUSTON – A soggy situation in a neighborhood east of downtown Houston.
A man named Celso Mendoza reached out to us through our help desk saying that a city water main leak has been affecting his property since December, and since then, it’s only gotten worse.
Adding to that, he says this isn’t even the first time he’s had to deal with this problem over the years.
“That’s a lot of water. That’s a lot of water. Look at all the sand that’s undermining my driveway,” Mendoza said. “It’s a waste.”
“You say that this is not even the first time that a city water main has broken?” KPRC 2′s Deven Clarke asked.
“No, you see this cement this is all new that they poured for me…they came, dug this up. It’s about eight foot deep and they closed the leak(a few years back),” Mendoza replied.
As far as the current leak, he says this weekend it got even worse.
“Initial service request was in December, and they came and put that (City of Houston) flag,” Mendoza said. “The flag signifies that they came and looked at it and they determined that it belonged to their side. That the leak was on their side…and I’ve dug the water out of the meter & the meter isn’t turning so it’s definitely their side.”
“Yesterday a man in a truck came and he was Public Works, he was like the scheduler or something, he came and determined what was going on and says ‘ok I’m writing the ticket, and they’ll be here in the morning,’” Mendoza said. “No one showed up.”
A Public Works official said the reason why no crews came Tuesday is because they received a high number of emergency calls that took priority, however she said that a crew is scheduled to come out Wednesday barring anymore emergencies.
Mendoza says he also received a call from Public Works saying even if it doesn’t happen tomorrow the job should be completed no later than Friday.
