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I'm pretty sure we're above 15" and that's not for the year, that's for the month of June. I have to mow my yard every few days when it's actually not pouring.
PS: May started the wet season in Costa Rica when we were there. Their normal rainfall is 11" in May and in June.
DEBARY -- As this city mounts an aggressive pump-out of rain-swollen lakes, it faces a new water problem literally bubbling to the surface of some backyards in the Glen Abbey subdivision.
Residents suspect a new retention pond on 17 acres at Enterprise and Highbanks roads is responsible for turning parts of a couple of backyards into stinky, mucky messes -- a claim county officials say is unfounded.
Across Central Florida, officials and residents Monday were keeping a close eye on retention ponds and other water bodies in a region already soaked with above-average rainfall less than a month into the hurricane season.
"It's close to the all-time wettest," said forecaster Scott Kelly at the National Weather Service in Melbourne.
In Orlando, rain has fallen 23 of the past 27 days for a total of about 14.5 inches -- one of the rainiest Junes on record.
Central Florida has seen little flooding despite the nearly daily downpours in some areas. Yet officials, mindful of last year's hurricanes, are checking pumps, clearing drains and keeping an eye on lake levels.
Forecasts call for an 80 percent chance of rain today and a 50 percent chance Wednesday and Thursday to close out the month.
In Deltona, city officials have placed five portable pumps throughout the city that are ready to run if necessary.
In DeBary, which has one of the worst drainage problems in Volusia, officials were using 14 pumps Monday to lower lake levels -- the most pumps in operation this year, said City Manager Maryann Courson.
Residents along Alexandra Woods in Glen Abbey say they have been dealing with soggy backyards since the big retention pond behind their homes went to work for the first time after last year's hurricanes.
"When we went into the dry season, it didn't go away," Glen Abbey resident Jeff Morosetti said Monday while walking across soggy grass behind his house off Alexandra Woods. "This thing just kept leaking all through the dry season."
County Engineer Gerald Brinton said the pond, which has clay walls, isn't leaking. Brinton, who has inspected the site with other officials, said experts recently took soil samples because of residents' concerns.
A comparison of those samples and ones taken before the pond was built shows that the groundwater levels before and after the pond's construction are "virtually identical," Brinton said. That means the pond is functioning properly and not causing the problem, he said.
"Our conclusion is we don't believe that there is measurable amount of sogginess attributable to our pond," said Brinton, who is scheduled to talk to city officials about the problem today. "I think we properly designed it, and I think it's properly functioning."
Brinton suspects a natural condition -- an unusually heavy rainy cycle -- is a factor in creating the soggy backyards, which Brinton suspects would have been dampened even if the county's big retention pond didn't exist.
But Morosetti, who has lived in the same house off Alexandra Woods for six years, said he had plenty of rain in the past but his backyard didn't get soggy until the new pond started collecting water in earnest last fall.
Frustrated about the situation and worried it would get worse with more rain, residents took action this weekend and dug trenches to divert water into a nearby retention pond that sits lower than the county's pond.
The work seems to have helped, said Morosetti's neighbor, Robin Schmidt.
"We're starting to dry out," she said Monday.
Nevertheless, Courson, the city manager, said she plans to ask City Council members July 6 to authorize spending about $10,000 for a geo-technical study to determine what's causing the problem.
PS: May started the wet season in Costa Rica when we were there. Their normal rainfall is 11" in May and in June.
DEBARY -- As this city mounts an aggressive pump-out of rain-swollen lakes, it faces a new water problem literally bubbling to the surface of some backyards in the Glen Abbey subdivision.
Residents suspect a new retention pond on 17 acres at Enterprise and Highbanks roads is responsible for turning parts of a couple of backyards into stinky, mucky messes -- a claim county officials say is unfounded.
Across Central Florida, officials and residents Monday were keeping a close eye on retention ponds and other water bodies in a region already soaked with above-average rainfall less than a month into the hurricane season.
"It's close to the all-time wettest," said forecaster Scott Kelly at the National Weather Service in Melbourne.
In Orlando, rain has fallen 23 of the past 27 days for a total of about 14.5 inches -- one of the rainiest Junes on record.
Central Florida has seen little flooding despite the nearly daily downpours in some areas. Yet officials, mindful of last year's hurricanes, are checking pumps, clearing drains and keeping an eye on lake levels.
Forecasts call for an 80 percent chance of rain today and a 50 percent chance Wednesday and Thursday to close out the month.
In Deltona, city officials have placed five portable pumps throughout the city that are ready to run if necessary.
In DeBary, which has one of the worst drainage problems in Volusia, officials were using 14 pumps Monday to lower lake levels -- the most pumps in operation this year, said City Manager Maryann Courson.
Residents along Alexandra Woods in Glen Abbey say they have been dealing with soggy backyards since the big retention pond behind their homes went to work for the first time after last year's hurricanes.
"When we went into the dry season, it didn't go away," Glen Abbey resident Jeff Morosetti said Monday while walking across soggy grass behind his house off Alexandra Woods. "This thing just kept leaking all through the dry season."
County Engineer Gerald Brinton said the pond, which has clay walls, isn't leaking. Brinton, who has inspected the site with other officials, said experts recently took soil samples because of residents' concerns.
A comparison of those samples and ones taken before the pond was built shows that the groundwater levels before and after the pond's construction are "virtually identical," Brinton said. That means the pond is functioning properly and not causing the problem, he said.
"Our conclusion is we don't believe that there is measurable amount of sogginess attributable to our pond," said Brinton, who is scheduled to talk to city officials about the problem today. "I think we properly designed it, and I think it's properly functioning."
Brinton suspects a natural condition -- an unusually heavy rainy cycle -- is a factor in creating the soggy backyards, which Brinton suspects would have been dampened even if the county's big retention pond didn't exist.
But Morosetti, who has lived in the same house off Alexandra Woods for six years, said he had plenty of rain in the past but his backyard didn't get soggy until the new pond started collecting water in earnest last fall.
Frustrated about the situation and worried it would get worse with more rain, residents took action this weekend and dug trenches to divert water into a nearby retention pond that sits lower than the county's pond.
The work seems to have helped, said Morosetti's neighbor, Robin Schmidt.
"We're starting to dry out," she said Monday.
Nevertheless, Courson, the city manager, said she plans to ask City Council members July 6 to authorize spending about $10,000 for a geo-technical study to determine what's causing the problem.
