ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - For CC Bennett, seeing sewage and trash on his lawn is common after rainstorms — when his Cahokia Heights home is surrounded by floodwater.

But, he says, things could be getting better — just a little — a year after the EPA, DOJ and other groups reached a settlement with the city of Cahokia Heights about water concerns and infrastructure.

Bennett, who says the area didn’t flood when he first moved in decades ago, has watched crews build some below-ground infrastructure designed to push standing/flood waters away.

“I don’t know where all that water comes from,” he told First Alert 4, walking down his street. “It comes down the street, and it runs past here like a torrid rainwater, just everything, debris, all this whole ditch is covered up with sticks and

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