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Bulk garbage pickup in Cheektowaga Monday following flooding

A bulk garbage pickup has been scheduled for Cheektowaga Monday following this weekend's flooding.

CHEEKTWAGA, NY - Some folks in Cheektowaga are still picking up the pieces following this weekend's heavy rain.

The Town of Cheektowaga's Highway Superintendent, Mark Wegner, announced that a bulk garbage pickup has been scheduled for Monday, to assist residents who may need help cleaning up.

He also says town inspectors will be prepared to check homes if homeowners deem it necessary.

"I just opened my son's baby book, and just cried," said Cherie Noah, who lives on Toulon Drive. "All his artwork I saved since kindergarten is gone."

"My wedding dress was floating across the water," said Tara Bukowski (sister of 2 On Your Side producer Elizabeth Fuhrmann) who lives on the same street. "I think we lost pretty much everything that we had down here, a lot of memories, family photos... All my kids stuff from when they were babies."

It's stories like these that everyone shared, and everyone shed tears for, as they cleaned up the wreckage on Saturday.

Some, though, were upset the town hasn't done more to keep it from happening at all.

"This was my fathers house, he just passed away recently, but I know they've talked to the town many many times," said Cherie's husband Bob Noah. "It's just ridiculous."

While some residents chose to blame the town for inefficient storm drains being the route of the issue, Town Highway Superintendent Mark Wegner said that's not the issue here.

"It came down so fast, the ground is so hard," Wegner explained, trying to make sense of the mess himself. "My heart goes out to these people, but I don't think there's a problem with the size of our pipes... The lines are surcharged, the water has nowhere to go when they're surcharged they're full capacitated. So the water, unfortunately, has only one place to go, and that's in the basements if they're not set up the right way."

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