St. Joseph neighborhood struggles with ongoing drainage issues  

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- A family on the South Side of St. Joseph shared concerns about drainage problems in their neighborhood.

The family said, when they reached out to the City of St. Joseph, a crew did come out to work on the issue near Pine Street. Workers used a backhoe to dig the ditches deeper and even removed some of the culverts. 

But the family says the job wasn’t finished — because the culvert in their yard was left clogged with dirt and debris.  

“A crew came down and dug the ditches deeper with a backhoe, but the tube, the culvert that goes underneath the sidewalks and walkways to the houses, are just full of debris and dirt,” St. Joseph resident, David Duncan said.  

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