MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. – On top of now paying higher rent prices, residents of the Colony Park mobile homes are also making a stink about a sewage leak.
“It’s been leaking for months and we are very concerned about the health of the mobile homeowners and their children,” Heike Jahnert said.
Jahnert, of the Colony Park Mobile Homeowners Committee, said a lot marked with caution tape is normally used as a playground.
Neighbors said workers cleaned up the sewage leak there, but on Tuesday more sewage was still trickling out of a pipe near other homes.
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Jahnert isn’t sure what’s causing it but said it needs to be fixed immediately.
“It’s just not acceptable,” she said. “Park management and the park owner, they need to take some actions.”
Management told News 6 that all leaks are being fixed. Some of those workers were seen in the neighborhood Tuesday.
Brevard County said the sewage leak is a Florida Department of Health violation.
The park manager said neighbors are only complaining to local news about the sewage because they’re mad their rent went up recently.
Even if all the leaks do get fixed, Jahnert worried the sewage that’s leaked already could be contaminating the groundwater and she wondered what that could mean for their drinking supply.
“We would really like to have all the sewage leaks repaired,” she said. “We also would encourage park management to walk the park frequently so that may detect sewer leaks in a timely manner and fix it in a timely manner.”
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