COCOA, Fla. – Residents of a Cocoa-based community, home to over 100 mobile dwellings, are pointing fingers at a nearby retention pond for causing significant flooding issues. The inundation is reportedly affecting the Westgate Mobile Home Park, located to the west of I-95, where persistent rainfall has left the ground so saturated that some homes are beginning to sink.

Virginia Martin, a resident of the park, expressed her frustrations to Cocoa Community Correspondent James Sparvero. “It’s been an ongoing problem since we’ve been here,” she lamented, highlighting the severe waterlogging that has been impacting her neighborhood.

In an attempt to illustrate the problem, Martin gestured towards her front yard, explaining, “This area will be flooded.” She further detailed that before efforts were made to dig a ditch, the flooding would extend all the way up the street, compounding the issue.

The situation at Westgate Mobile Home Park underscores a pressing concern for the community, as residents grapple with the challenges posed by the overflowing retention pond and seek solutions to prevent further damage to their homes.

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When asked about the flooding, FDOT said workers cleared the ditch running along the pond.

Without it being blocked by debris, FDOT said the system’s working how it should, but residents like Martin, who lives in one of the closest homes to the pond, are still worried anytime it rains.

Some neighbors were also concerned when the big equipment was at work that the vehicles could hit a gas line.

“I don’t want us to go boom,” Martin said.

People also told Sparvero that FDOT hit a water line, but when asked about that, FDOT said that while it did hit a pipe, it wasn’t for water.

FDOT couldn’t say exactly what the pipe was for, but did say officials are looking at options for how they can make possible improvements.

For now, FDOT said it has no indication the pond is impacting the park.

“They need to trench it better,” Martin said. “The water’s coming this way, but it has no place to go down here. It needs to go that way.”

FDOT said the retention pond was built in 2007 when I-95 was widened.