By Cecilia Chan | Gilbert Sun News
Nate LeSueur says that for the past year and a half, anytime it rains and with any amount of rain, water would flood onto his property on Melrose Street.
The culprit is a three-story, 5,000-square-foot house under construction in the front yard of LeSueur’s next door neighbor’s existing home.
“Who would want to buy a property that acts as water storage for their neighbor’s property?” LeSueur said at the Aug. 15 Gilbert Town Council meeting. “What do you think the value of my property is now?”
He said that although the property owner submitted a grading and drainage plan in the spring, not one shovel full of dirt has been moved.
He also said that he’s hired an independent engineering firm that reviewed the plan and found it fell short.
