Rainfall is starting to drive one Devonshire resident crazy as each time the drops fall, a small lake forms outside her house as water drains to her door from Dunkley Dairy?s warehouse parking lot.

Elizabeth Furtardo of Ariel View Close said she never had a problem with flooding at her home until Dunkley Dairy built the parking lot.

But now, every time it rains, water flows from the parking lot to her front door step.

On days when there is heavy rainfall, Mrs. Furtardo said she has to wade through water up to her ?mid-calf? to get from her car to her door.

The parking lot is on slight slant and Mrs. Furtardo?s home is at the wrong end of it.

When it was being built, Mrs. Furtardo?s father went and asked the company what they were planning to do about drainage.

He was told that it would all be taken care of but the parking lot was finished in early January and and the flooding began.

Mrs. Furtardo raised the issue with the Planning Department, and officers inspected the premises on January 28 and gave Dunkley Dairy a notice to have the angle of the lot fixed.

Mrs. Furtardo said a Planning officer told her that they would not grant the company a certificate of completion until the issue was rectified. But the warehouse is being used and the problem persists.

Dunkley?s Dairy owner Michael Dunkley said last night, however, that the issue has been grossly exaggerated and that the flooding is not wholly connected to the dairy?s parking lot.

?About 95 per cent of the water comes down from Ariel View [road,? he said. But Mr. Dunkley said that he intends to put a gutter in to deal with the water which is coming from his parking lot and that it?s just a matter of getting someone to come and do it.

Mrs. Furtardo, however, is fuming that three months have passed without the issue being addressed.

She said it has become a real inconvenience to her family. Her tenants? children can?t play outside their apartment after it rains and everyone is fed up with traipsing through water to get in their front door.

?We cannot have guests over when it rains because they have to walk through a lake to get to our house,? she said.

Dunkley?s has not taken her family?s situation seriously, she said: ?They know that this is a big inconvenience and have done nothing. Maybe Dunkley can give us a boat so we can row to our home.?