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With 240 West Quebec residents still under the care of the Red Cross after flooding devastated their homes in May, the City of Gatineau says it continues to wait on its provincial counterparts to fully assess the damage.
In a presentation Tuesday, some four months after the river crested, Gatineau councillors heard the city is waiting for relevant damage and claim information from Quebec’s Ministry of Public Security.
The ministry has divulged the number of damage claims, but not the addresses of affected homes, preventing the city from getting a full picture.
Homeowners may be reimbursed for as much as $250,000 in areas deemed high-risk flooding zones, if the damages are valued at more that 50 per cent of the property value.
Any land vacated due to demolition will not be built upon again.
As of Aug. 29, the city has fielded 140 permit requests for renovations, and 27 demolition requests. That’s only a fraction of the 1,133 total damage claims received by the province.
The flood’s physical toll was still visible in the city’s hardest hit neighbourhoods Tuesday.
In the Jacques-Cartier sector, officials have granted 13 demolition permits, while another five permits are being processed.
“It’s sad,” said Louise Perron, surveying a stretch of Rue Saint Francois-Xavier left nearly abandoned. “Many of them were insured, but not for water.”
While many of her neighbours were rebuilding, other homes were “destroyed beyond repair.”
“It’s even worse on the other side of the street,” she said in French. “It was horrible.”
Perron said her home had eight inches of water in her basement at the flood’s peak, with six pumps working overtime.
“The problem wasn’t so much the water, it was the sewer backups,” she said.
According to official figures, the region received 238.8 millimetres of rain between April 1 and June 1. By contrast, only 70.9 millimetres fell during the same time period in 2016, while 125 millimetres fell in 2015.
Marcel Schryer, who has lived on Rue Jacques-Cartier for 72 years, said he’s never seen anything like it.
“It happened very suddenly,” said Schryer in French. “Once in 1974 the water (from the nearby Gatineau River) was flush with the street. This spring it was three feet higher.
“I went to bed one night, the water was up to (the street level). By morning it was over.”
Schryer said at least four neighbouring homes are slated for demolition. One of his neighbours was out of the country when the flood hit, and by the time he returned to his home, it was a write-off. Many of the foundations are “finished,” he said.
The Red Cross said 240 flood victims are still in hotels in West Quebec , including 109 in Gatineau. About 150 more are relying on aid while staying with friends and family.
Red Cross counterparts in Ontario said no flood victims are still being accommodated in Ontario hotels. The flood impacted several low-lying communities on the Ontario side of the river.
The City of Gatineau said 2,214 homes were impacted by flooding, and 1,407 people were affected by evacuation orders. Twenty-one homes have been deemed uninhabitable, while an additional 47 have been identified as having “compromised” structural integrity and/or foundations.
And while neighbourhoods are still coping with repairs, the full scope of the flood’s infrastructure costs became clearer during Tuesday’s City Hall presentation.
Four city streets were at risk of landslides, four others showed signs of structural degradation, and three streets were under observation over concerns with their structural integrity.
Rock slides on Rue Hurtubise and Rue Fournier cost $129,572, while the total bill for street repairs came in at nearly $600,000. Mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin authorized $1.8 million in emergency spending, allocated to street repairs, sand bags, pump rentals, garbage bins, vehicles and external contractors. The city spent an additional $1.8 million in overtime for municipal workers, police and firefighters, emergency workers and managers.
The Quebec government is expected to compensate the city for about half of the total costs.
–with files from Jean Levac
ahelmer@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/helmera
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In a presentation Tuesday, some four months after the river crested, Gatineau councillors heard the city is waiting for relevant damage and claim information from Quebec’s Ministry of Public Security.
The ministry has divulged the number of damage claims, but not the addresses of affected homes, preventing the city from getting a full picture.
Homeowners may be reimbursed for as much as $250,000 in areas deemed high-risk flooding zones, if the damages are valued at more that 50 per cent of the property value.
Any land vacated due to demolition will not be built upon again.
As of Aug. 29, the city has fielded 140 permit requests for renovations, and 27 demolition requests. That’s only a fraction of the 1,133 total damage claims received by the province.
The flood’s physical toll was still visible in the city’s hardest hit neighbourhoods Tuesday.
In the Jacques-Cartier sector, officials have granted 13 demolition permits, while another five permits are being processed.
“It’s sad,” said Louise Perron, surveying a stretch of Rue Saint Francois-Xavier left nearly abandoned. “Many of them were insured, but not for water.”
While many of her neighbours were rebuilding, other homes were “destroyed beyond repair.”
“It’s even worse on the other side of the street,” she said in French. “It was horrible.”
Perron said her home had eight inches of water in her basement at the flood’s peak, with six pumps working overtime.
“The problem wasn’t so much the water, it was the sewer backups,” she said.
According to official figures, the region received 238.8 millimetres of rain between April 1 and June 1. By contrast, only 70.9 millimetres fell during the same time period in 2016, while 125 millimetres fell in 2015.
Marcel Schryer, who has lived on Rue Jacques-Cartier for 72 years, said he’s never seen anything like it.
“It happened very suddenly,” said Schryer in French. “Once in 1974 the water (from the nearby Gatineau River) was flush with the street. This spring it was three feet higher.
“I went to bed one night, the water was up to (the street level). By morning it was over.”
Schryer said at least four neighbouring homes are slated for demolition. One of his neighbours was out of the country when the flood hit, and by the time he returned to his home, it was a write-off. Many of the foundations are “finished,” he said.
The Red Cross said 240 flood victims are still in hotels in West Quebec , including 109 in Gatineau. About 150 more are relying on aid while staying with friends and family.
Red Cross counterparts in Ontario said no flood victims are still being accommodated in Ontario hotels. The flood impacted several low-lying communities on the Ontario side of the river.
The City of Gatineau said 2,214 homes were impacted by flooding, and 1,407 people were affected by evacuation orders. Twenty-one homes have been deemed uninhabitable, while an additional 47 have been identified as having “compromised” structural integrity and/or foundations.
And while neighbourhoods are still coping with repairs, the full scope of the flood’s infrastructure costs became clearer during Tuesday’s City Hall presentation.
Four city streets were at risk of landslides, four others showed signs of structural degradation, and three streets were under observation over concerns with their structural integrity.
Rock slides on Rue Hurtubise and Rue Fournier cost $129,572, while the total bill for street repairs came in at nearly $600,000. Mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin authorized $1.8 million in emergency spending, allocated to street repairs, sand bags, pump rentals, garbage bins, vehicles and external contractors. The city spent an additional $1.8 million in overtime for municipal workers, police and firefighters, emergency workers and managers.
The Quebec government is expected to compensate the city for about half of the total costs.
–with files from Jean Levac
ahelmer@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/helmera
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