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Resident urges action as longstanding flooding, sewage and encampments persist in Mill Creek area
Summary
A resident told the Middletown Board of Supervisors that chronic flooding and poor drainage near Mill Creek and Saco Park have produced raw sewage, discarded needles and a suspected encampment; township staff said the site is on this year’s public‑works schedule but some infrastructure work requires external agency funding.
Joseph Fitch, a resident of 346 Wyoming Avenue, told the Middletown Township Board of Supervisors during public comment that a neighborhood drainage problem has persisted for decades and now includes raw sewage backing into yards and what he described as a heroin encampment near Saco Park.
"We got raw sewage coming out of the septic lines, going into people’s yards," Fitch said, describing repeated flooding…
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