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Crews have begun work on the fourth in an ongoing series of projects meant to help with flooding in some of the city’s worst-hit areas.
Workers are preparing to install new storm sewer pipes that will connect to new underground stormwater storage tanks in the area of Early Drive and Tucker Crescent, in the Brevoort Park neighbourhood. The project is expected to be completed in 2025.
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The new underground storage system will collect rainwater that would otherwise pool and potentially flood properties in the area. The water will then drain slowly through the storm sewer system before ending up in the South Saskatchewan River.
Most of Brevoort Park South will be fenced off during the work and for several months after construction to allow time for new sod and trees to establish themselves before the fencing comes down.
The Brevoort Park project is the fourth in a series of nine projects set to be completed under a flood control strategy approved by city council in 2018. The federal government is providing up to $21.6 million of the strategy’s $57 million budget; the rest will be funded through the city’s storm water utility.
The first project completed under the strategy was a dry storm pond at W.W. Ashley District Park that opened in 2022, followed by another dry storm pond opened at Churchill Park in 2023.
Construction of a dry storm pond at Weaver District Park is substantially complete, and the system is now able to handle stormwater in the area; fencing will remain in place at the site until this fall, when it opens back up to the public.
The remaining five projects in the flood control strategy are expected to be finished within the next three years.
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