Was there anything that could have been done to prevent water seeping into nearly 2,000 Windsor residents homes last week?
City engineers and Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens insist all systems were running at full capacity, and no system could have handled the amount of rain that fell over that short period of time.
But, Ward 7 Councillor Irek Kusmierczyk wants to know why the city is "dragging its feet" on a storm and sanitary sewer master plan, started in 2011.
"Why don't we have a document or a process, an expedited process, that analyzes infrastructure capacity in the city of Windsor, analyzes flow, making sure that both are working properly and both are accurate? And why don't we have a similar report that the Town of Tecumseh does?" asks Kusmierczyk.
Dilkens was fast to point out that even with such a report, the Town of Tecumseh still experienced flooding.
Kusmierczyk requested a report from administration that includes the timelines for the master plan and how much it would cost to expedite the process. He is also requesting an analysis from an independent third party on "the city's capacity to deal with so called surcharges and water flow, retention and detention capacity, capacity at Little River Pollution Control Plant and an analysis of the city's response to the 2011 and 2016 rain fall events."
