Urban and basement flooding symposium
This summer's flooding in Ontario and Alberta has highlighted the issue of urban flood damages, including basement flooding. They are a recurrent and growing issue for municipalities, insurers, and homeowners across Canada, with damages from urban flood events often totaling in the $10s and $100s of millions of dollars and few communities are immune.
Topics include:
- Basement flooding: Lot-side risk reduction through voluntary retrofit programs, code interpretation and by-laws
- Urban and basement flooding case studies in Winnipeg and Windsor
- Flood reduction strategies in Ottawa
- Reducing risk and building resiliency: The Credit River Watershed story
- Assessing climate change risk to stormwater and wastewater infrastructure
- Panel: Moving forward on urban flood risk reduction for new and existing homes and subdivisions