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Mount Clemens residents renew complaints about chronic basement sewage flooding
Summary
Multiple Lafayette Street residents told the commission they have repeatedly suffered basement sewage floods, calling city measures like rain‑barrel programs inadequate and urging infrastructure fixes; city staff outlined reporting procedures and said complaints from prior meetings were transmitted to boards.
Multiple Mount Clemens residents told the city commission on July 7 that repeated basement sewage flooding is damaging homes and livelihoods and that current remedies are insufficient.
Shelby Holderbaum, who identified herself as living at 53 Lafayette, said she has experienced “7 floods” since moving into her house and described successive remediation costs and replacement of finished basement work. “It is absolutely not [a solution],” she said of the city’s rain‑barrel and restrictive flow drain covers, adding that cleaning “feces and God knows what” from her belongings has become a recurring burden.
Gloria Jesse, 61 Lafayette,…
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