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Updated: 9:55 p.m. Saturday, July 29, 2006 | Posted: 7:33 p.m. Saturday, July 29, 2006
Yariela Raley walked KFOX through the mud to show us what use to be her yard where her horses lived.
"You can see the horse stalls, or what it use to be," said Yariela Raley from the Lower Valley
Raley said heavy rains have caused problems in the past, but she believes Friday night's flooding caused the most damage she has ever seen.
"I came out at about 6, no 8 o'clock, and you could hear a river coming through here, a river. If my 4x4 wouldn't have been tied up- it would have been washed out. It moved the truck," Raley said.
Raley's family worked to dig out their truck for most of the day, which they say got stuck in at least a few feet of mud after rushing water and mud pushed through most of their property and their neighbor's. The mud also covered her neighbor's pecan trees.
"Look at all of those, completely covered with mud. The trunks have at least maybe 5 feet of mud on them," Raley said.
The Clint landfill a few miles away also flooded and Raley said garbage from there floated down onto her land.
"All of this trash -- it doesn't come from one person, it comes from the landfill," Raley said.
"We live out here in the lower valley. The high rains that are coming off of the Clint landfill , they have been doing this for sometime, but this is the worst year we have had," said George Eveler from the Lower Valley.
Eveler lives next door to Raley and he showed KFOX how there is a huge ditch in between their two homes because of the heavy rain. Eveler said the large ditch runs all around his property, making it impossible for him to get out.
"We have lost access to our home until we get these arroyos filled up," Eveler said.
It's a problem residents here tried to solve on their own by building walls, but that didn't work, which is why they now want the county to help them out.
Raley said she tried contacting her county commissioner, Miguel Teran, three or four times, but he hasn't returned her calls .
KFOX spoke with Teran and he told us he wasn't aware of the problem.
He also said he believes the garbage in the area could have been left by people dumping trash there and it may not have come from the landfill.
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