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The owner of a house in North Union is calling on BRAGSA to build outside his home the retaining wall they stopped him from constructing in 2018.

Orlando Craigg made the call after a vehicle ran over the embankment on Monday and damaged his property, the third such incident in seven years.

Craigg told iWitness News that in 2018 he wrote to BRAGSA, the state agency responsible for the construction and maintenance of public infrastructure, to seek permission to build the retaining wall.

“I was told not to do anything to that bank because if anything happens, I’m responsible. The government is responsible for building that back wall,” Craigg told iWitness News.

He said he followed up with BRAGSA, which sent people to measure the area and come up with an estimate of the cost of the work.

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Craigg told iWitness News that BRAGSA told him that engineers had to be assigned to work on the retaining wall.

He said he also asked someone to follow up with BRAGSA for him, but nothing has happened.

However, since then, three vehicles have crashed into his property, including in March 2024, when his house was damaged and his dog was injured.

The company that insured the car covered the cost of the repairs, Craigg told iWitness News.

“And now again, this morning, I went out to clean my yard — the same area — I heard this noise and I rushed back in. I reached the door, a car came down again,” he said.

“This back wall could have done build. I was told not to do anything. Now I’m getting the effects of it,” Craigg told iWitness News.

He said that the driver and two passengers were in the vehicle and were taken for medical attention after the incident on Monday.

Craigg said that he has since used up the money that he had allocated to building the wall in 2018.

“So now, they are the ones responsible for building it because they have to use engineers and so on. So that’s the problem. They say, I’m not allowed to do it,” he said, referring to BRAGSA.

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