By Pepper Parr
July 19th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
So what happened and why did it happen?
And where was the damage worst?
The data to this point is that 680 homes were flooded – that is not a final figure. The Mayor said her house had four inches of water in the basement but that she yet to report the damage.
In 2014 when the city was flooded there were more than 3000 homes flooded.
The graphic shows where most of the damage took place. That data came from the Region and as you can see most of the homes were in ward 3.
Hwy 407 ETR cuts through the ward.
It was block at an 8 foot pipe that got blocked that cause the water to back up and flood streets in the Cavendish area
The water was running through West Rambo Creek where it was collected at a culvert. The grating got blocked causing the water to back up into the neighbourhood. The yellow line is the 8 foot pipe that take the water beneath the 407.
Crate that was blocked resulting in a backup of the flood waters in the Cavendish Drive community.
Council, to its credit, did a very good job of take the required action to keep people informed and to get on with the clean up.
Much more on this story.
Here we go, I guess we’ve gotta assign blame or at least share it, who’s responsibility is it to peer into pipe’s or look under bridges the Mayor? as I commented yesterday on a 40 min walk I had a cursory look over and assessed 4 bridges in downtown Burlington out of the four that needed maintenance, my opinion, one needed further inspection, I’d be interested to know how the Mayor’s house was flooded though, I know that she lives downstream of the bridges I was peering over.
Joe,
There are no good “photo ops” for spending money on infrastructure. Not much in the way of Kudos either.
How many residents really want to see photos of as you say ” raising flags, presenting plaques, and cutting ribbons” – all done in one day sometimes?
Apparently COB and Halton do not have a Loss Prevention plan or department. But we do have 85 people working in IT. If so a program would have been in place to “ENSURE” the likelihood of this happening was minimal. This is a complete and utter failure of stewardship. Why, not high on the list of priorities until the inevitable happens. There are no photo ops for people removing pallets from drains. Raising flags, presenting plaques and cutting ribbons is more important to this administration.