Omaha business owners frustrated with continuous drainage issues
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – Drainage overflow from yesterday’s downpour left several Omaha business neighbors full of frustration.
That’s because it’s not the first time they’ve had water and mud damage on their properties.
An invasion of muddy water was captured on security camera behind Kelly Mueller’s business Sunday afternoon.
“This is after the rain, this is water still coming down,” said Mueller, Radio Engineering Industries.
His employee parking lot flooded luckily not on a workday but the next storm could be.
“This is a safety issue, my employees are walking across this when they come in it’s a labor issue where we are latterly cleaning our lot every time, we get a heavy rain like this,” said Mueller.
This is the third cleanup in about a month.
In an effort to prevent rainwater and mud from flowing into his parking lot, Kelly invested in these silt barriers but you can see the power of the runoff just pushed them out…
