Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee, residents continue to voice concerns about flooding of the city’s creeks during major rains, with some speaking at four city commission meetings in the past two months.
Tiffany Winton, who lives along Little Soddy Creek, asked when the city plans to apply for grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to buy properties such as hers that are located in floodways within the city.
Earlier this month the city requested on its website and Facebook page that citizens affected by recent flooding along Little Soddy Creek, Big Soddy Creek and North Chickamauga Creek contact the city to provide information necessary to apply for a mitigation grant through FEMA.
Some of the residents who have done so may not qualify for assistance through the grant, because the damage affected only their properties and not their homes, City Manager Janice Cagle said. One such property belongs to Pine Street resident Sandra Hayes, whose home is in imminent danger of falling into North Chickamauga Creek after the creek bed moved closer to her home during heavy rains on Easter Sunday.
Cagle said she hopes Hayes will qualify for another grant the city is applying for on her behalf that covers structures in imminent danger.