Midtown Apartments Flood, Create Muddy Mess

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Image Credit: WSB-TV

A Midtown apartment complex has gotten a mud treatment after rains and possibly clogged drains brought significant flooding to the area over the weekend.

WSB-TV reports that parts of the 251 North apartment complex received up to three feet of flood waters on Sunday night. Residents told the station that they thought recent landscaping work had clogged the storm drains with pine straw. Resident David Hexton said he had lived at the complex for eight years and this was the sixth or seventh flood he had gone through.

Clogged drains are also being blamed for the flood which submerged a portion of the Downtown Connector on Sunday afternoon. Creative Loafing spoke to the Atlanta Department of Watershed Management, which said that clogged storm drains in the vicinity of Exit 249B caused the flooding of the connector.

The spokesperson said that the drains were packed full of yard signs, tree limbs, and other illegally disposed of items, despite being cleaned out on Thursday.

It took crews from the city and the state department of transportation around 40 minutes to open up the storm drains and bring the floodwaters under control, Creative Loafing says.