Huron Expositor, 2009-04-01, Page 22tory of flooding, to better inform the
village when a flood is imminent.
Alec Scott of the ABCA says the
price of a new -station is $20,000
and the cost to rim it is. $10,000. He
added that the ABCA has thought of
opening a new station in Dublin and
is raising money for it.
Mike Kraemer of the municipal-
ity's operations department said the
best thing for residents with leaky
basements is to install a backflow
preventer in their homes to reduce
the risk of water seeping in. He also
recommended getting a sump pump
with a battery •back-up for electrical
blackouts or one that can run off a
car battery.
"We might also be coming to your
door, throwing dye down your drains
to see where they're heading," Krae-
mer said.
Over the past few weeks, the flow
of every stoma sewer in Dubin has
been videotaped to indicate .where
any blockages or 'prnhl em n �!
drains may occur.
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Flooding in Dublin blamed on aging infrastructure
Dan Schwab
About 50 residents fed up with
having their basements flooded with
water called for answers during a
public meeting on drainage matters
in Dublin March 25. • '=4 ""
Representatives from West Perth's
operations department and the
drainage superintendent addressed
the frustrated attendees at the Dub-
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The central issue around the drain-
age problems is the age of three
municipal drains in Dublin, one of
which was constructed in 1914.
Extremely high water levels on
occasions in December and Febru-
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reached flood levels not seen since
the 1970s.
"There were white caps in the field
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said. "There was water going across
the road."
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and Seaforth, is responsible for ad-
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One woman attending the meeting
asked if there should be a monitor-
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Kraemer says he's still waiting to
hear back from the video company
about where the potentialproblems
occur.
"Your information will help us. A
lot of our infrastructure is old," he
said, adding that "the amount of
snow we've had since Nov l was a
major problem."
Residents attending the meeting
were asked to fill out a municipal
form indicating problems they've
encountered with flooding on their
properties.
If they wanted an inspection or
cleaning performed on a drain, they
were told to sign a request form at
the municipal office, which would
be forwarded to the next West Perth
council meeting.
Bill Dietrich, drainage superinten-
dent for West Perth, said if there is
a problem with a private drain on a
landowner's property, it -would only
be fixed at that person's expense.
Ii4. said any request will be for-
warded to the conservation author-
ity before any work is done.
"If it's a tile draining system, if it's
blockage, that can be fixed," Dietrich
said.
To be upgraded, a written munici-
pal request would also need to be
submitted and then council can be
petitioned to have an engineer ap-
pointed to have the drain replaced,
he said.
The Liffey drain, which starts in
Logan Township and flows to Dub-
lin, serving 6,700 acres of mostly ag-
riculture land, has not had a report
completed on it since 1949.
One resident in attendance noted
that while the depth of the drain
is the same as it was 60 years ago,
"hundreds of farm drains have been
added since then."
The Staton drain, which was built
in 1963. and serves 170 acres north
of the train tracks in Dublin, has a
14 inch tile, which might need to 'be
upgraded to a bigger size.
In the 1980s, work was completed
to twin sections of the drain that
were under sized, and additional
upgrades were made.
The Dublin municipal drain, con-
structed in 1914, serves a watershed
of 50 acres and can have branches
added to it, Dietrich said. -
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