By Pepper Parr
July 17th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
A Cavendish area resident is keeping us up to date what is happening in that part of the city and the problems with Hwy 407.
Councillor Nisan made an appearance this morning on the affected area of Cavendish… Didn’t offer much info. No sign of Meed Ward.
Residents are more impressed with the action of MPP Natalie Pierre… where the CoB is telling residents that they are having a difficult time contacting the 407ETR people, Pierre contacted the Minister of Transportation…MTO then intervened on behalf of frustrated residents and got the ball rolling.
407 ETR flooding in 2014
Natlie Pierre: She may not have put on hip waders but she knew how to use the telephone.
407ETR crews were back on site on the highway south of Upper Middle this morning and are working to get the water draining properly. This will allow relief of the buildup of stormwater runoff which has caused the flooding on Cavendish to start to ease. 407ETR were out at the site on the highway on Tuesday morning but according to area residents, they called off any work due to safety concerns for crews… the earth on either side of the creek outlet was very soft and unstable due to the saturation of the ground from all of the rain/creek runoff.
Tree limbs and branches got swept up in creeks that were at their water level limits and carried this debris to the point where it bunched up and jammed up and resulted in flooding.
Still, one of the major contributing factors to the situation on Cavendish and this creek, is the lack of maintenance to clear and remove debris. The largest contributor to the tree limb / branch debris is material which was cut and left in place to naturally decay after the City’s program to cut down infected Emerald Ash trees which were stricken by the Emerald Ash Beetle.
Apparently this was the approach developed and outlined in the City’s Urban Tree and Forestry Program….
Common sense would have been to bring in mobile tree chipper/shredders and to have mulched the cut limbs and branches on site while the Ash trees were being cut down.
COUNCILLOR Nisan is an utter failure showing up for a 5 minute photo op
Who was the Brain Child that told these Contractors to leave all of the debris behind at the site to Naturalize? Was it the City giving these instructions or the Contractor who did the trimming?
I understand the same thing happened in the Creek behind Falcon in Aldershot. Which obviously backed everything up!!
Either way one or both are responsible.
I see a valid lawsuit for damages in the future the positive result of which of course will be borne by taxpayers. I wish them luck.
Useful idiots is the term Marx would appropriately use to describe these decision makers that have infested all levels of government.
Ommon sense, you are joking, they don’t understand council decisions must comply with provincial legislation as simple as AODA identify and remove barriers. It really is expecting too much to have them understand twigs and branches block culverts, mulch it.