Families worried about loved ones’ gravesites after flooding returns to Oakland cemetery

Families are expressing concern about high flood waters at a local cemetery.

People who live in west Orange County turned to Channel 9 after Oakland Cemetery, where they buried their loved ones, flooded.

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On Tuesday, families showed up to Oakland Cemetery looking for answers.

Word spread quickly through town that the historically Black cemetery along State Road 50 in Oakland had flooded for the second time.

Channel 9 reported on the property flooding a year-and-a-half ago when the property flooded after it rained. At that time, the city said a newly constructed road for a future development forced rain water to run off onto the burial grounds.

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That development is finished, and the flooding is much worse. But the city says that houses built by Pulte Holmes are to blame.

More than 300 plots are covered in water. One crypt has already lifted and the groundskeeper said the longer the ground is saturated, the more likely it is that others will open.

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