SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - An entire Southwest Miami-Dade community is underwater after a burst pipe flooded the streets and caused water to surge into homes.
This happened in the Palm Garden mobile home community off of Southwest 285th and 152nd Avenue early Thursday morning.
The cause of the flooding was a burst pipe located underneath a man’s home.
7News spoke to the homeowner Ivan Marino, who said he woke up in the wee hours of the morning to the sound of the running water, only to find his storage room flooded.
“I don’t know, underneath the house there’s the air conditioning ducts, and all of that is now completely drenched in water,” said Marino in Spanish when asked about concerns for long lasting damage. “If everything damaged, that’s going to cost me a lot of money to fix.”
Miami-Dade Water and Sewer was on scene and worked to stop the water from gushing out and drain whatever was left.
7news spoke to a woman in Spanish that she’s lived there since the community opened and that this was not the first time this had happened.
There hasn’t been a solution for this she said, because it feels like they don’t care about a trailer park.
MDWS said that this was a natural break, so it wasn’t caused by somebody hitting it or from any construction, but it could have been caused by multiple different factors like salt water corrosion or age.
Their first priority remains fixing the problem and then they will investigate the cause of the pipe burst.
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