"I could hear the water. I'm guessing it was pretty close to up here," says Peggy Tomkiewicz, pointing to the top of the sump pump hole in her basement floor.

"I don't want to replace another sump pump. I don't want to pay an extremely high electric bill to no fault of my own," says a frustrated Tomkiewicz.

"There was water on the floor," says Mary Gills, who also lives on West Calvert Street. "My husband noticed there was toilet tissue and stuff."