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Sewage waste from mobile home park could be seeping into neighboring irrigation wells, state says

"Diluted, but yes," said Brian Miller, of the Florida Health Department.

Tom Fitzpatrick is fed up and says his neighbor, Sunshine Mobile Villas, is making his life miserable.

He claims he has been dealing with sewage waste water for months.

Hillsborough County Code Enforcement and the Florida Health Departement are involved.

Officials say the drain field on the mobile home park property failed and the septic system can't handle the mobile home park's waste. It's overflowing into Fitzpatrick's property, the health department says.

"Because it's not being accepted in the ground, it's actually percolating up, and that's what's running off," Miller said.

County code enforcement has fined the owner of the park thousands of dollars and ordered repairs.