Areas are still flooded in some Pasco County neighborhoods and people are asking their government what they’ve done to fix the continuing problem.

Thursday the county took Bay News 9 on a tour showing what they’ve done and what they hope to do to keep people’s homes out of the water.

The tour started on Little Road where the county built a weir, basically a barrier that controls the water flow.

“That’s basically where all the water that comes from Gunn Highway flows through these [Trinity] neighborhoods,” said county spokesperson, Doug Tobin. The county says it would like to raise it.

“That weir is lower than the other two weirs so you get a bowl of water in there and it doesn’t flow as well as it should,” said Tobin.

The flow from that weir goes into Trinity neighborhoods. Thursday residents interrupted the tour to question the county.

“What do I tell my people in here who I told in my last newsletter that I think we got the problem solved, and now this is the worse than it’s ever been,” said Trinity Oaks HOA President, Ron Levi.

Levi said he doesn’t think the county has done enough in fixes but admits some of it has made a difference. 

Since 2006 the county has spent nearly $5 million in improvements which include dredging, building weirs, and building flood gates at Seven Springs Boulevard that flow out to the Anclote River and into the Gulf.

Even so residents are left singing the same old song.

“The reality is Little Road has 10 miles of water that’s coming across the street to Thousand Oaks first and we can’t handle it, we can handle our own water fine,” said Levi. “Detour that water somewhere and they’ll be fine, we’ll be fine and we’ll never have a problem.”

“And we understand that and that’s why we are going to spend $2.5 million to try to fix that, we understand exactly what you’re saying,” replied Tobin.

The $2.5 million will be used to further study and fix the ongoing flooding issues.