h) In addition to the restoration and landscaping elements, a significant number of features have been installed along and within the drain to enhance fish habitat. These features include:

• Variable-sized sand, gravel, and stone substrates;

• Igneous rock boulders in the channel bottom at intermittent locations along the entire length of the new drain;

• Snake hibernacula at the promontories that separate the bench areas between Sta. 0+000 to 0+190;

• Rock vanes and rock shelters at intermittent locations along the drain;

• Root balls and armour rock clusters within the benched slope areas (Sta. 0+000 to Sta. 0+190). The horizontal bed of the benched areas have been graded in a manner that will promote the establishment of grass hummocks during periods of low water levels on the Detroit River.

7.0 Allowances

We note that all of the drainage works are located on lands owned by either Transport Canada / WDBA or the City of Windsor. We therefore determined that no allowances or compensation were warranted based on the foregoing, and the following:

• no privately-owned lands are directly affected by the drainage works;

• all cost for construction of the drainage works (including preparation of this report) will be borne by TC/WDBA;

• the City has approved by way of CR388/2007 that all costs of drain maintenance, repairs and improvements, except those associated with Special Benefit, be borne by the City through the general tax levy; and,

• the drainage system is being taken to a sufficient outlet.

8.0 Cost Estimate

Ordinarily, a report under Section 78 of the Drainage Act includes a cost estimate to complete the recommended drain improvements. However, since the improvements to the Broadway Drain have already been completed, as noted in Section 2.4, we have summarized the actual construction cost of the drain improvement works. The actual construction costs have been summed with the actual known engineering costs to date of submission of the report, estimated engineering costs that will be incurred after submission of the report, estimated costs to complete engineering, the estimated cost of incidental expenses, and taxes.

The total estimate of the cost of the work, including incidental expenses, is $3,835,840.17, made up as follows: