(La Porte County, IN) - Some La Porte County residents were trapped in their subdivision from a road covered by four feet of water after the heavy rain storm Saturday.

 

This was on Otis Road between Michigan City and Westville.

 

Rob Sabie, Director of La Porte County Emergency Management, said there’s a creek in that area and it appears the high water was from a partially collapsed old railroad line restricting flows from a drainage culvert below.

 

Pumps were used to help lower the water.

 

“It took over a day to get the water back down,” he said.

 

Fortunately, Sabie said none of the roughly 24 homes in the subdivision were flooded.

 

La Porte Waste Water Department Superintendent Jerry Jackson said a number of intersections in the city were flooded from the storm.

 

He said the storm water drainage system was backed up from the 3.5 to 4.5 inches of rain that fell in less than two hours.

 

Jackson said the treatment plant has about a 10 million gallon daily capacity but the storm brought peaks flows that were at the rate of 150 million gallons a day.

 

The excess water was diverted into an outdoor storage lagoon for slower release into the plant after the storm.