This increases pressure on the sewer systems and overland drainage routes, such as roads, local rivers and streams, which can lead to basement flooding,” a city spokesperson said in an email Thursday. “The areas along Black Creek that were impacted by yesterday’s storm are particularly vulnerable to flooding,” the TRCA said in an email. “I started doing research, I thought there were enough projects in the works in the city” to contain the flooding, Swanson said. But I gambled and lost hard.”The systems in place to handle the Black Creek floodplain aren’t strong enough, Swanson said. “now that Finch is developed and … the whole Black Creek watershed has been developed, right?

Source: thestar July 09, 2020 23:15 UTC