Some residents of Butter Hill Estates off Route 9W were cleaning up Thursday after a quick burst of rain turned their yards into lakes. Photos shared Wednesday by neighbors showed ponds along Butternut Drive taken over by ducks. Craig Wood showed News 12 the two catch basins in his yard that connect to the newly fixed drainage line that runs under the neighborhood. Wood said that when the rain hit Wednesday, the catch basins seemed to clog, and then remain clogged for hours.

"For some reason, the last two times this all flooded," he said. "Yesterday, there were ducks out here swimming."

There are now multiple sinkholes in his and his neighbors' yards. Town officials said the sinkholes will be fixed in a few days. Wood is staying patient. He figured the new drainage project that cost taxpayers about $1.7 million may need some tweaks.

"It's still under construction so I'm not too concerned," he said. "If it was a year from now, maybe I'd have a problem with it."

Town Supervisor Stephen Bedetti said he will meet Friday with the town's engineer and the contractor who oversaw the drainage project to discuss solutions to the ponding problem.

"I'm no engineer but I see an issue there," Bedetti said Thursday when reached by phone. He believes there are at least a couple reasons for the flooding. One is that the catch basins' lids might be making the storm water drain too slowly and might need to be replaced with steel grates to improve flow. Another is that debris is being channeled directly toward the catch basins. Bedetti said the Butter Hill Estates neighborhood is one of the lowest spots in the town at just above sea level and it was built 50 years ago over a sand pit, both posing challenges.

"People don't realize that when they're mowing their lawn or they're blowing off their sidewalks and blow it in the street, that ends up in our infrastructure," Bedetti said. "It's challenging for drainage, fast drainage, if you will."