Seal Beach residents fear housing development project in nearby Los Alamitos will worsen flooding [Video]

SEAL BEACH, Calif. (KABC) — Residents of the College Park East neighborhood in Seal Beach say they are concerned that a new housing development in nearby Los Alamitos will exacerbate the area’s recurring flooding problem.

Mike Orland has lived in the community for 25 years and has seen the issue worsen.

“That’s a normal thing pretty much now,” he said in an interview with ABC7. “We get the heavier rains and the water is above the curb down the whole block.”

He said in a storm water doesn’t have a lot of places to go.

“You have to go for blocks and blocks to get to your first drainage into the sewer system,” Orland said. “So the water is going down throughout the whole neighborhood just to get into the storm drain.”

Now, the construction of a new housing project across the street in Los Alamitos has Orland and other residents concerned the flooding threat …