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Canonsburg hit with significant flooding for second time in 2 weeks

Canonsburg hit with significant flooding for second time in 2 weeks Business owners in Canonsburg are yet again cleaning up mud and debris from flooding after heavy rains moved through the area Sunday afternoon. (WPXI/WPXI)

CANONSBURG, Pa. — Monday was yet another day of cleanup for businesses on Pike Street in Canonsburg.

“Look at all this!” said Greg Trunzo, Owner of Trunzo’s T&T Cycles, of the water and mud in his business. “This is all the way to the windows.”

He’s tired of cleaning up after heavy rains and floods.

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“There was about six inches of water here last night,” Trunzo said as he walked through his shop with Channel 11’s Andrew Havranek. “There was about six inches of water all through here.”

Video posted on Facebook showed Pike Street flooded Sunday afternoon. That’s where T&T Cycles has been since 1993.

Just two weeks ago, Trunzo spent nearly five days cleaning up mud from flooding then.

“Cleaned my office already, I had this baby shining last week!” he said.

On Monday, Channel 11 saw several businesses cleaning up after Sunday’s storms. Many still had mud in their parking lots.

Businesses tell Channel 11 the heavy rains are too much for the drainage system to handle.

“They need an engineer or something to come in and lay this out,” Trunzo said.

Crews from Robinson Pipe Cleaning were out Monday cleaning drains on McBurney Street, just off Pike Street.

It’s work, Mayor David Rhome said, that started last week.

“All the authorities are working to figure out where we go to next. Over the last week, we have had companies come in, do the cleaning of the different pipes, so forth and so on, and then you know the skies opened up again, and we’re back at the same spot where we began,” he said.

As business owners clean from this consistent flooding issue, they’re also worried about a creek that runs behind their shops. The heavy rains have already caused a lot of erosion, and they worry a tree is going to fall and cause a dam in the water.

“As I see the tree that is about to drop in, as I see the hillside that is washing out to a point where buildings are potentially going to start falling into it, and I don’t really get any answers on a plan to deal with it,” said Sharon Mastrangioli, owner of Al’s Discount Tires.

The mayor said the borough is aware, and they’re researching what can be done.

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