GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Months after a water main break on Grand Rapids’ southeast side affected nearly 200 homes, neighbors in the area say they’re working to pick up the pieces with no financial help from the city.
The water main broke June 13 at the intersection of Adams Street SE and Philadelphia Avenue SE, flooding the neighborhood.
Water main break floods neighborhood in SE Grand Rapids
Now, neighbors say they have tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of damage to their homes and vehicles.
“We have been in the black really for two months, and everybody on this street with different degrees of damage has been in the same place. Now we are looking at $60,000 we don’t have, and winter’s coming up,” resident Scott Hall told News 8. “We have no furnace. We can’t put a furnace in until we get electric, which is $10,000.”
But neighbors say when they submitted claims to the city, they …