PALM COAST, Fla. — Some residents living in the Cypress Knoll subdivision in Palm Coast say they are fed up with flooding in their front yards.

And with another hurricane season right around the corner, the threat of flooding concerns some residents.

Manny Correa has lived in the Flagler County neighborhood after moving there from New York, and says any time it rains, his front yard floods.

“I have been here five years. The house is eight years old. I have complained every year and they always give you the runaround,” he said.

Often, the water gathers in the swale, or drainage area, of his front yard and water sits for weeks at a time, where he often finds fish and even an alligator living in the standing water.

His neighbor, Joe Miller, has the same problem.

“I think there are about two dozen of us living in this neighborhood dealing with these flooding issues.” said Miller.”

Miller says anytime it rains, his front yard floods and often takes weeks to drain, leaving him no opportunity to cut and maintain his lawn.

Miller also says his home is one of the first homes built in the subdivision back in 1990 and said the yard never used to flood, but that all changed five years ago.

“The rainwater can’t go any further than my neighbor’s house because the city allowed them to put the culvert in 9 inches too deep and too small of a pipe, so it creates a backlog. All the water from there and my yard backs up there,” he said, pointing to his neighbor’s home.

Miller and others said they have reached out to the City of Palm Coast multiple times, but the problem has never been resolved.

Spectrum News 13 contacted the City of Palm Coast, and they said they were aware of the problem.

A meeting has been set for April 16 to appoint a five-member committee made up of residents to try to come up with a short-term solution to the flooding issue.