{"id":140271,"date":"2023-04-21T09:15:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T13:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=140271"},"modified":"2023-04-20T19:02:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T23:02:05","slug":"flushed-toilet-at-military-housing-resulted-in-toilet-water-dripping-from-multiple-spots-on-the-kitchen-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=140271","title":{"rendered":"Flushed toilet at military housing resulted in toilet water dripping from multiple spots on the kitchen ceiling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After living in hotels for five weeks, a military family finally moved into base housing at Fort Gordon. Events quickly brought the excitement and relief to an end. Someone flushed the toilet. However, instead of the plumbing infrastructure working the way it was expected to work, toilet water dripped from multiple spots on the kitchen ceiling.<\/p>\n

From the Military Times:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

“That night, things took a turn,” she said. Around 8 p.m., after an upstairs toilet had failed to flush, she noticed a liquid leaking from multiple spots in the kitchen ceiling.<\/p>\n

It was brown, it was disgusting, and it was flowing uncontrollably, including into the bathtub.<\/p>\n

“Water with poop was falling into our kitchen, with our groceries we’d just bought and onto our dog bed,” she said. She immediately notified the privatized housing company on base, Balfour Beatty Communities. Before midnight arrived, they were told they were being displaced, “that we should move to a hotel in an unfamiliar area, with two kids, two dogs and everything we had brought with us,” she said.<\/p>\n

So, after moving from Washington state across the country in the middle of the school year and living in a hotel, she had to tell her children they had to move to a hotel again.<\/p>\n

“We can’t use any of the bathrooms,” she said. “We can’t live with poop falling from the ceiling.”<\/p>\n

Viera and two other Army wives spoke about their experiences during a military housing oversight session on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., conducted by Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Georgia. Since taking office in 2021 and meeting with troops and families, Ossoff and his staff have been investigating housing problems at Fort Gordon and across the nation.<\/p>\n

Issues like those faced by the Vieras continue despite the massive reforms enacted by Congress more than three years ago, which required the Defense Department and military services to address a raft of tenant concerns and improve their oversight of privatized housing. The Army wives, all current or former residents of Fort Gordon, described their problems with mold, water intrusion, sewage backups and leakage within the past year. And their problems also occurred after the senator’s April 2022 investigation at Fort Gordon that spurred the Army to take action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Military Times has the rest of the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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