“You should be proud of public works,” Jenn Clary, Sidney’s director of engineering, told councillors sitting as committee of the whole at their Jan.
Staff responded to 41 work orders related to flooding, with about 20 on private property, although not all of those residents alerted the municipality.
The cases where town crews responded were scattered across the community, not in clusters, committee learned.
According to staff, the municipality does not have instruments to monitor storm drainage flow, thereby making it impossible to accurately answer the question.
While it continued to run during the storm, parts of it were underwater, leading Clary to suggest relocating the station would be a good idea.
While moving the station was already on staff’s radar, the heavy rain event provided a real eye opener, Clary said.