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Originally Posted by stazzy33
What kind of infrastructure fixes are you thinking of? Looking at what happened, there was very little that could have been done to prevent the flooding.
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Well every community is obviously different but in the case of Sunnyside where most residents flooded from sewer failure there are probably a few relatively inexpensive things that can be done.
- Cleaning the storm sewers would be a good start - apparently they're running around 50% because of age and sediment.
- Increasing the pump station capacity wouldn't hurt. The gates close when the rivers are high which makes sense but not having the pumping capacity to even clear a modest 10mm storm doesn't make much sense.
- Isolating the local storm sewers could also help protect the community. 10mm of rain in a community with closed storm drains causes some minor local flooding in low spots. 10mm of rain in a bunch of communities that all runs down the hill to the community with closed storm drains causes catastrophic flooding in an entire community.
It's probably more complicated than that but it's also more complicated than abandoning entire communities of prime real estate near the cities down town core.