Former maintenance worker says saltwater seeped through collapsed Miami condo's foundation during high tides

Collapsed Surfside building.
(Image credit: CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

A former maintenance worker at the collapsed Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside, Florida said saltwater would "seep through the building's foundation during particularly high tides," per The Washington Post. Further reports of leaks and flooding in the building's parking garage "stretch back decades."

"There was always water in the garage," resident John Turis, who was away at the time of the building's collapse, told the Post. "There was always water leaking — it used to leak on my car all the time."

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Brigid Kennedy

Brigid Kennedy worked at The Week from 2021 to 2023 as a staff writer, junior editor and then story editor, with an interest in U.S. politics, the economy and the music industry.