• Inundated by Stormwater in Walltown
  • Building Trolls in Dix Park
  • DPS Enrollment Dips
  • ICYMI: Plans for Fayette Place
  • Raleigh Budget Survey
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Good morning, readers.

A section of Mandy McGhee’s foundation collapsed this spring. She wasn’t surprised.

A stormwater pipe has been dumping water onto her Durham property for decades. The pipe collects runoff from an area roughly the size of seven football fields before emptying out right next to her home. 

So who’s responsible for the damage?

The City of Durham has shared ownership of the pipe but says it’s only responsible for the section running up to McGhee’s property line, while McGhee is responsible for the part on her land and everything that pours out of it. A city ordinance backs this up.

Case closed, then. Except McGhee bought her home through Self-Help’s Walltown Homeownership Project—a program that the community development organization designed to help low-income, first-time buyers build generational wealth in a historically Black neighborhood. Self-Help renovated the home and the city certified it for occupancy, but the pipe was never addressed.

Read the full story below. Have a good Tuesday.

—Lena

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