CHICOPEE, Mass. - Several Chicopee residents are dealing with water damage to their homes and cars after a flood on Olivine Street overnight Tuesday into Wednesday.
What You Need To Know
- Olivine Street in Chicopee experienced a flood overnight Tuesday into Wednesday which caused water damage to several homes and cars
- Chicopee resident Carlos Figueroa was given a pump by the fire department to help drain the water, but the damage to his basement is already significant
- Several cars parked on Olivine Street Tuesday night were deemed total losses due to water damage
- The water came flooding from a lake off Route 391. Olivine Street only has two drains
"I woke up this morning and ran to the basement because I just heard water pouring down - something that happened before," said Chicopee resident Carlos Figueroa. "And when I opened the basement door, I saw how flooded it was so I opened my front door, then I immediately called 911 because the street was a whole pond."
Figueroa was given a pump by the fire department to help the drain water, but he said damage to the basement is already significant.
"Everything's destroyed," Figueroa said. "The refrigerator, the washer, the dryer, wedding stuff we had stored."
And it wasn't just his home either.
"So this happened before, and the cars that got affected by the water was a total loss," Figueroa said. "So this time it was actually more cars that got affected by the same water that happened before. So these cars and the tenants, I feel bad for them because their cars are totaled, they can't even sit on the seats."
Figueroa and other residents said they've experienced more than one flood in the last two years and say it's alarming.
"The water's coming from up the street on Route 391," Figueroa said. "And this little man made lake back here that they made for the water to run off, all that water accumulates from the highway and upper on the hill, and when it overflows it comes to us because we only have two drains."
"Two drains here, and two drains down by the fire hydrant down there," said Chicopee resident Joseph Loiselle. "There were six drains, but they said when they put this new road here the two drains would cover it, but it doesn't."