Essex Mayor Sherry Bondy wants to form a task force to find solutions to repeated flooding in the town.
She plans to ask council for support on Monday night, but the proposal won't be debated until the council's meeting on May 4.
Bondy said the town put together a task force once before when residents suffered back-to-back sanitary sewer backups.
"We did it before in Ward 1 back in 2014 or 2015," said Bondy. "We had a work plan after which we completed it all, so I want to see if there's political appetite to do it again."
The task force would put together a plan for the town, complete with how much each action would cost.
"We could potentially go to the province and say, you know, we have a backlog of drainage works, $60-million dollars worth, you know we can't afford it. Is there any assistance," continued Bondy. "It'll give us a plan with costs associated with it, so we can see what we're looking at financially."
The most recent major flooding event was in Colchester and Harrow. A total of 100 mm of rain fell on September 24, 2025.
