One of [San Diego's] many storm drain channels runs under the railroad tracks at Imperial Avenue and Merlin Drive. It’s covered with plants and trash. On Wednesday, mayoral candidate Larry Turner continued his campaign push. Turner used this storm channel as an opportunity to remind San Diego voters of the January 22nd flooding. Heavy rain overflowed storm drains, causing destruction across southeast San Diego. Since then, the city cleared more than a hundred tons of debris from those channels, but Turner says it’s too little too late. … ABC10News anchor Kimberly Hunt brought this issue to Mayor Todd Gloria more recently during our mayoral debate. Gloria defended the city’s response, touting seven million dollars he secured for the housing commission to assist victims of the January 22nd flooding. … He says a large part of $700 million in federal funds will go toward stormwater infrastructure in those neighborhoods. But Turner claims there are still a handful of channels that remain untouched.

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