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Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com (St. Louis Post Dispatch) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/554d4470-6cf9-4dff-aeb6-e1d8fe68b779/Image-02.jpg Photos & Videos A clump of human waste and toilet paper forms on a sewer venting pipe on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019, that has been flowing constantly for about 15 years in the front yard of Centreville residents Lincoln and Hazel LaFlore's home on 82nd Street. Any home on the LaFlores' block can contribute to the raw sewage that will flow out of it. If the pipe is capped, the same water and waste would rise up through the drains, toilets and sinks inside their home. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com (St. Louis Post Dispatch) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/589be012-5256-4ed4-9619-bc9480e42e5d/Image-03.jpg Photos & Videos Water spews from a hole in the street on Friday, Jan. 10, 2020 at Laura Avenue and 63rd Street in Centreville near one of the city's running sewer pumps. The pumps in the city often fail creating problems for residents that can include water backing up into home through the drains. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com (St. Louis Post Dispatch) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/fba0ebac-7ffb-41f4-8ef6-a266c3b99f66/Image-04.jpg Photos & Videos Centreville resident Patricia Greenwood listens with other residents on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019, during a strategy meeting at Centreville Church of Christ in which citizens discuss actions plans and decide what steps to take to confront their water and sewage problems. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com (St. Louis Post Dispatch) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/fc81282b-fe0d-44bb-a1f6-3502165a1c6b/Image-05.jpg Photos & Videos Nicole Nelson, an attorney working with Centreville residents, conducts a strategy meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019, at Centreville Church of Christ in which citizens discuss actions plans and decide what steps to take to confront their water and sewage problems. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com (St. Louis Post Dispatch) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/65ce81b3-7115-4d73-baa6-f86bc6c2d753/Image-07.jpg Photos & Videos Earlie Fuse surveys damage done on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, at his Piat Place home a few days after a heavy rain caused flooding that collapsed a new basement wall he had just replaced in October because of long-standing problems with flooding. This was the sixth wall he's installed for his basement. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com (St. Louis Post Dispatch) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/69ace0c9-6bb5-4364-92f6-27fc2796df60/Image-08.jpg Photos & Videos Earlie Fuse watches activity in his Piat Place neighborhood in Centreville on Jan. 11, 2020, after an overnight storm again flooded his home and entire block, collapsing a new basement wall he replaced in October. Earlie and another resident have filed suit against city and utility officials because of long-standing problems they have had with sewage and flooding. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com (St. Louis Post Dispatch) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/b9388f50-9e06-4597-a253-32eef331b15e/Image-09.jpg Photos & Videos A home at 83rd and Bluff in Centreville stands surrounded by rainwater on Friday, Jan. 10, 2020. The water, which is no longer carried away by the existing runoff system, becomes trapped and stays long after rain subsides. The situation creates a formidable mosquito problem for neighborhood residents. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com (St. Louis Post Dispatch) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/c9c3abfd-187a-4643-af17-55c1578ad359/Image-10.jpg Photos & Videos Centreville resident William McNeal uses water he carried into the house and heated on his stove to wash dishes on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. Rain water that constantly gets trapped under his home has softened the ground so much that his hot water heater and furnace collapsed under their own weight when the floor they stood on gave out. He now uses space heaters and the oven to heat his home. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com (St. Louis Post Dispatch) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/7787037a-c6c7-452a-802e-8610cc049a76/Image-11.jpg Photos & Videos The furnace and water heater in William McNeal's Centreville home photographed on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019, collapsed years ago under their own weight when the floor supporting them rotted away, rendering both useless. Since then, McNeal has gotten most of his drinking water through a program from an Urban League office in Fairview Heights. When the rain gets heavy, it sends water under McNeal's home where it gets trapped until it dries on its own, if ever. He uses space heaters and the oven to heat his home. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com (St. Louis Post Dispatch) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/85f47936-e37b-4190-9a09-92545abc2a46/Image-12.jpg Photos & Videos Centreville resident Walter Byrd, left, talks with Corey Allen along 80th Street on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019, Allen, who recently got hired as Centreville's public works supervisor had a crew putting PVC piping into canals along the street. Byrd told Allen he was skeptical their measures would be enough to resolve the problem. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com (St. Louis Post Dispatch) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/7ec26e0d-8851-4e7a-87d9-f2d2f7b584c6/Image-13.jpg Photos & Videos Pebbles, a dog at Lonnie Greenwood's Piat Place home stands in it's flooded backyard warding off strangers on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020, after an overnight rain covered the backyard and the entire block with water. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com (St. Louis Post Dispatch) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/4f8c9c1d-7a49-4248-9e3e-8664883f0f01/Image-14.jpg Photos & Videos Centreville residents Lonnie, right, and Patricia Greenwood look out over their flooded Piat Place block on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020, with son, Arthur, 14, after an overnight heavy rainfall left them trapped for a couple of days. The Greenwoods, used to the possibility of being flooded, prepared to stay in when the forecast predicted heavy rain. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com (St. Louis Post Dispatch) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/086a63cd-a2b2-4fb5-84e1-ac801cd24ff7/Image-15.jpg Photos & Videos Centreville resident William McNeal carries bottled water he gets from an Urban League assistance program into his house on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. He has not had running water since the flooring that holds his water heater and furnace collapsed under their weight years ago. Rain water constantly gets trapped under his house softening the ground beneath. He now uses space heaters and the oven to heat his home. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com (St. Louis Post Dispatch) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/84bdda79-4e3e-46ae-9fe3-8eee29fdc76a/Image-16.jpg Photos & Videos Nicholas Gale, left, and Chester Jackson, with the Centreville public works department, dig new trenches along 80th Street in Centreville on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019, in an effort to create better runoff. Despite the effort, water continues to flood the streets in that part of the city, mainly because subsequent canals are not sufficiently clear of vegetation and trash for proper flow. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com (St. Louis Post Dispatch) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/000c0c7e-cab4-4c5c-a98d-0a6a1b4681dd/Image-17.jpg Photos & Videos Human waste and toilet paper lays gathered in the yard of Centreville resident Walter Byrd on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, after a sewer cleanout pipe installed at his home, overwhelmed by a recent heavy rainfall, spewed it outward. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com (St. Louis Post Dispatch) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/4a2127b8-e6fa-4727-a0a6-8854798eea5d/Image-19.jpg Photos & Videos A sewer pump at 82nd and Bluff Streets in Centreville stands surrounded by rainwater on Friday, Jan. 10, 2020. When pooled water damages pumps and causes them to fail, raw sewage from the neighborhood sits trapped in the sewer lines causing a myriad of problems for residents. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/209d78f1-9924-486b-8f16-ae3b9b7ab20a/Image-20.jpg Photos & Videos What appears to be raw sewage and storm water are being pumped out of a pipe in the 200 block of North 82nd Street in Centreville. Neighbors complain about the stench when the temperatures are warm. Tampons, toilet paper and other items can be seen in the water and on the ground near the pipe. Derik Holtmann DHOLTMANN@BND.COM (Belleville News-Democrat) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/a0c020d2-fa0e-4b7a-b8a5-01f599cfe9e1/Image-06.jpg Photos & Videos "This has become a routine," says Steven Scott, a resident on Piat Place in Centreville, on Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, as he pushes mud and water away from his home and towards a nearby storm drain a couple of days after a flood that covered his entire block with about two feet of water retreated. Residents in parts Centreville have to clean up the streets themselves following frequent flooding that leaves the pavement coated with mud and debris. Scott laments not being able to keep his truck, shoes and floors in his home clean because of constant build-up of mud and dirt. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com (St. Louis Post Dispatch) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/81df0724-2bf3-42a6-9c65-b36015ec0166/Image-18.jpg Photos & Videos Centreville resident William Byrd, is shown what's beneath sewer manhole cover in Centreville on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, by Frank Pace, a foreman with Commonfields of Cahokia Public Water District, the sewer utility that covers the city. Byrd attended a public meeting at the utility the night before and complained about his water problems. The next day, Pace met to show Byrd all the pumps, inside and outside of Centreville that should be responsible for moving sewer water out of the city. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com (St. Louis Post Dispatch) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/e4fc0319-e7c2-478b-b5cc-2198a5a4cbb7/Image-23.jpg Photos & Videos What appears to be raw sewage and storm water are being pumped out of a pipe in the 200 block of North 82nd Street in Centreville. Neighbors complain about the stench when the temperatures are warm. Tampons, toilet paper and other items can be seen in the water and on the ground near the pipe. Derik Holtmann DHOLTMANN@BND.COM (Belleville News-Democrat) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/b7756a5b-a88c-4c32-bf7f-d61c92d93173/Image-21.jpg Photos & Videos Residents believe many of the pump stations like this one on Belleview Avenue in Centreville are not performing like they previously did. Derik Holtmann DHOLTMANN@BND.COM (Belleville News-Democrat) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/046a589d-bc03-4746-b5e0-d8cf6a4ad874/Image-22.jpg Photos & Videos Centreville resident Walter Byrd talks about flooding and sewer issues that he and his neighbors have been battling for years. Byrd lives in the area near Illinois 157 and Lake Drive in Centreville. Derik Holtmann DHOLTMANN@BND.COM (Belleville News-Democrat) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/243eb18c-9aa6-422e-89f9-fdadf748af2c/Image-24.jpg Photos & Videos A condemned vacant home in the 8500 block of Belleview Avenue in Centreville shows the damage water has done on the property. Derik Holtmann DHOLTMANN@BND.COM (Belleville News-Democrat) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/192225b0-8fdf-468e-b9fa-773e2756314d/Image-25.jpg Photos & Videos An old drain pipe rests right next to the new one that was installed on North 80th Street in Centreville. Derik Holtmann DHOLTMANN@BND.COM (Belleville News-Democrat) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/4312d1f1-faeb-4996-9ed9-dddf65e80c30/Image-26.jpg Photos & Videos Centreville resident Walter Byrd stands in his side yard next to raw sewage and his attempt to keep the sewage from backing up into his home. Derik Holtmann DHOLTMANN@BND.COM (Belleville News-Democrat) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/d6057ecf-2265-43d6-b22d-f9ab4ed4fc67/Image-27.jpg Photos & Videos Over the past forty years, Patricia Greenwood’s house has gradually deteriorated as a result of the flooding in Centreville. (Image: Lonnie Greenwood) (Boston Review) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/e3b95f61-7f1f-4734-b866-554ae5802070/Image-28.jpg Photos & Videos Earlie Fuse, Mrs. Greenwood’s neighbor, has rebuilt the washed-out foundation of his home five times. (Image: Walter Johnson) (Boston Review) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/8c2fd7e5-d09f-44cd-ad1f-ab6548da1a62/Image-29.jpg Photos & Videos Backed-up sewage mixes with water as the ground continues to flood in Centreville. (Image: Walter Johnson) (Boston Review) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/55056f5c-fd35-4794-b9f6-b6c8ebd12fc7/Image-30.jpg Photos & Videos Walter Byrd checks on an overflowing sewer grate next to his home in Centreville. Like dozens of other residents, Byrd has raw sewage seeping through his yard. CAROLINA HIDALGO (St. Louis Public Radio) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/501a3313-6168-4347-9988-46e02791ba08/Image-31.jpg Photos & Videos Earlie Fuse points to a plywood wall he constructed after his basement wall collapsed. CREDIT FILE PHOTO | CAROLINA HIDALGO (St. Louis Public Radio) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/6246191f-9aba-431c-b948-5481a56eb761/Image-32.jpg Photos & Videos Valerie Marion keeps her appliances up on bricks to keep them safe from the flood water that seeps into her basement. CREDIT CAROLINA HIDALGO (St. Louis Public Radio) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/6e820995-7fe9-4f92-8b55-a7c06b7030ca/Image-33.jpg Photos & Videos Centreville Mayor Marius ‘Mark’ Jackson canceled Tuesday’s meeting of the City Council for unknown reasons. Calls to the city and requests for comment from the mayor yielded no answers other than that the meeting would not be rescheduled. Kavahn Mansouri KMANSOURI@BND.COM (Belleville News-Democrat) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/e15957eb-094d-4fef-a6f6-52f7eb8e3fc4/Image-35.jpg Photos & Videos Danny Lane, right, gives his friend Walter Byrd a push as Byrd prepares to head down a flooded Centreville street in June 2015. Firefighters evacuated residents earlier in the day. ROBERT COHEN / POST DISPATCH / POLARIS (Earthjustice) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/8ac5578a-e2e0-41fc-ad33-c64ee5b5771b/Image-36.jpg Photos & Videos A yard in Centreville. IMAGE COURTESY OF EQUITY LEGAL SERVICES (Earthjustice) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/e69f1349-1baf-46de-9779-19bbd0a5ffb0/Image-37.jpg Photos & Videos Flooding in Centreville. IMAGE COURTESY OF EQUITY LEGAL SERVICES (Earthjustice) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/790ec63c-7f0c-404e-b43c-e5e472386d39/Image-38.jpg Photos & Videos Centreville residents attend a meeting about the flooding in their town. IMAGE COURTESY OF EQUITY LEGAL SERVICES (Earthjustice) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/3f476255-cdc0-46f0-aacd-6e491a05f3de/Image-39.jpg Photos & Videos Roads and homes were flooded as rain fell over Centreville, trapping residents in their homes and making roads impassable (Belleville News-Democrat) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/ea41bd9d-dc38-4c41-bbe7-900687ca39ac/Image-40.jpg Photos & Videos Roads and homes were flooded as rain fell over Centreville, trapping residents in their homes and making roads impassable (Belleville News-Democrat) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/81bebd57-4d83-4864-81ff-2ac3c874e65a/Image-41.jpg Photos & Videos Centreville residents seek federal court authority over leaders to fix 'dysfunctional' sewers; Their 'sheer indifference' blamed (Madison-St. Clair Record) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/815f5c7c-3ab6-4b8e-aaff-fe4f28a0fa2a/Image-42.jpg Photos & Videos Patricia Greenwood says despite constantly spraying bleach, she can’t stop mold from growing on her windowsills. Photo by Michele Munz, Post-Dispatch (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/b81e8b37-004c-46c2-bcae-aa8a88c571c0/5e4dbb9fa148c.image.jpg Photos & Videos The street where Sheila Gladney lives floods during heavy rain, trapping residents. This photo is after a day of rain in January. Photo by Michele Munz, Post-Dispatch (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) https://www.floodedandforgotten.com/interviews daily 0.75 2022-06-24 https://www.floodedandforgotten.com/stories-and-quotes daily 0.75 2022-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/29aab950-7b54-43e8-959c-b44004ac7d5c/Quote+Backdrop+Black.png Stories and Quotes - The last time Walter Byrd drank his tap water, he suffered a heart attack. ‘At the hospital, my doctor warned me never to drink the water again. I haven’t drank it in 10 years,’ he says” (Earthjustice). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/837e24cf-dd51-452e-9eaa-6e1cb0f0962e/Quote+Backdrop+Orange.png Stories and Quotes - “Many of those who moved to Centreville put their life savings into homes that were worth fifteen or twenty thousand dollars when they bought them; their homes are now worth literally ten cents on the dollar of what they paid decades ago” (Boston Review). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/29aab950-7b54-43e8-959c-b44004ac7d5c/Quote+Backdrop+Black.png Stories and Quotes - “When it rains, Hopkins keeps watch out the window and gives updates to her children calling to check on her. She gets scared when it rains, she said, because the water gets so high and she can’t swim” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/cb6f34c1-1d8c-48ee-bfac-a569b48d440a/Quote+Backdrop.png Stories and Quotes - “‘Can you imagine bringing your family up in waste?’ he said. ‘After working all your life, you gotta live up in it? Retire in it?’” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/837e24cf-dd51-452e-9eaa-6e1cb0f0962e/Quote+Backdrop+Orange.png Stories and Quotes - “In heavy rain, water fills Gladney’s block and basement, which is crumbling and cracking. Three times, she and her family have had to be rescued by boats, she said. The last time was nearly two years ago, when her husband had lost his right toe to diabetes and the wound was healing from an infection. ‘That water was nasty to walk through to get in the boat,’ she said. His toe got reinfected. Last summer his lower leg was amputated” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/29aab950-7b54-43e8-959c-b44004ac7d5c/Quote+Backdrop+Black.png Stories and Quotes - “‘Sometimes you can look and say, ‘Oh, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.’ That will make the hardships seem worth it,’ Johnson said. ‘But with this situation here, it seems like there is no light. It almost takes your hope away from you’” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/c791e3a0-891d-4328-9b21-6d83dea75ecc/Quote+Backdrop+Light+Gray.png Stories and Quotes - “‘No, I’m not going to abandon my house,’ McNeal said. ‘It’s all I got’” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/c791e3a0-891d-4328-9b21-6d83dea75ecc/Quote+Backdrop+Light+Gray.png Stories and Quotes - “‘We had big carp fish out there, eating all the waste,’ Byrd said. ‘Fish be all out in that field out there. It be so many of them’” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/cb6f34c1-1d8c-48ee-bfac-a569b48d440a/Quote+Backdrop.png Stories and Quotes - “It was rising 5 to 6 inches every 20 or 30 minutes.” Fuse said he has experienced significant flooding in his basement over the nearly 30 years he has lived in his home. The walls of his basement have caved in at least five times, making it uninhabitable.” (Belleville News-Democrat). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/837e24cf-dd51-452e-9eaa-6e1cb0f0962e/Quote+Backdrop+Orange.png Stories and Quotes - “Sharon Smith, 58, says spots of black mold in their bedroom are so bad that she and her husband can’t stand the dust. ‘Me and my baby sleep on the couch,’ she said” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/29aab950-7b54-43e8-959c-b44004ac7d5c/Quote+Backdrop+Black.png Stories and Quotes - “’People don’t realize,’ Johnson said, ‘the toll it all takes — not being able to flush your toilet, embarrassment when friends visit, the constant smell, the dirt and rust on your car, watching where you step when you walk, having all the money you’ve invested in your house disappear, feeling trapped, feeling like you let down your family, trying to encourage your children to see a bright future’” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629ab7a9cf6de433f40143d4/837e24cf-dd51-452e-9eaa-6e1cb0f0962e/Quote+Backdrop+Orange.png Stories and Quotes - “Small fountains of raw sewage bubble up into the yards twenty-four hours a day, flowing into fetid sluiceways that run between the houses. 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