APOPKA, Fla. — One week after Hurricane Milton hit, some Apopka residents are still nervously watching water levels rise near their homes as retention ponds overflow.

The city, Orange County, and Seminole County will need to work together to fix the issue, but residents say they want solutions now.

With floodwaters lapping at her driveway in Apopka’s Wekiva Village, Amber Barrick is still in shock.

Right after Hurricane Milton, she thought she and her family had gotten lucky.

“It was amazing. We were like God answered our prayers. We didn’t lose power. No trees came down,” Barrick said.

However, Thursday night she noticed floodwaters creeping up, using whatever they had on hand to track it.

“As of Friday, we were measuring the water, and it was coming in at an inch an hour. So things really picked up quickly,” Barrick said.

By then, crews had to cut off power to her home and some of her neighbors because of concerns that the water might cause their transformer to blow. A generator was brought in to keep the lift station going and keep wastewater from coming up to their homes. However, Barrick, said the water has continued to rise.

“From 8 p.m. last night to 8 a.m. this morning, it went up another half-inch,” she explained.

According to Orange County’s Stormwater Management Division, Apopka’s Piedmont Lake and Border Lake, the latter of which is under Seminole County’s jurisdiction, back-flowed into Orange County’s street drainage system and overwhelmed the wetland and lake at the end of Barrick’s street.

District 2 Commissioner Christine Moore said they are working hand in hand to fix the problem.

“So additional research was done, and internally this morning, we had a discussion and discovered now it is another city lake that is pouring into the county’s system under the road to our pond," Moore said. "So the temporary solution would be for the city to plug up that inlet as well.”

Apopka Mayor Bryan Nelson said he’s been watching the flooding in the area. The city initially was trying to pump water until the ponds got too full. Now they are implementing temporary solutions.

“So we are taking a little over 3 million gallons of stormwater and processing it at our wastewater treatment plant," Nelson said. "So we are taking water out of this area and taking it over to our plant on Cleveland Street.”

Both Nelson and Moore agree there needs to be a permanent fix to this issue that will take time.

As for Barrick, she’s frustrated, stuck without power until the waters recede. As she continues to watch the water inch closer to her back door, she’s disappointed that the city didn’t do anything sooner.

“If it’s going to cost millions of dollars to fix this — who is going to buy our homes? Barrick said "Like we can’t just move, and this is a problem that has to be fixed and it was a failure of local government, unfortunately.”

According to Orange County Stormwater Management, staffers are working on a potential solution and will have recommendations to the city of Apopka.

Barrick and many of her neighbors brought up the issue at the city council meeting Wednesday evening.