MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) – Fifty people, including 17 children, are working to get back into their homes after flooding at the Wayne Manchester Towers last month.

“My understanding is that there was an unmarked utility line that the Purple Line construction team encountered, and that resulted in a water main break,” Chris Gillis, Montgomery Housing Partnership (MHP) director of policy and neighborhood development, said.

Gillis said the break caused significant flooding to 20 apartments on the first two floors of the building.

"A lot of people lost personal property,” he said. “Clothes, mattresses, those sorts of things that were lost.”

County leaders asked MHP to help the families impacted.

“One hundred percent of everything we raise will go immediately back to the familie

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