expected to be submitted to Council in Fall 2020 in order to file the Notice of Completion and commence the start of the 30-day public review period.

Further, Administration recommends a comprehensive implementation strategy be developed that incorporates these recommendations into City’s Asset Management Plan. This strategy will include expansion of the current data modelling of roads and sidewalks to include sewers and potentially water assets as well. The system will model deterioration and project recommendations for the individual assets. We will then create a ‘Corridor’ model that will tie roads, sewers and water together to model recommended projects in order to maximize use of funding and reduce risks. The data-modelling project is starting in summer 2020 and is expected to significantly influence the 2022 capital budget, although some efforts may be able to inform in part the 2021 capital budget as well.

In the interim, Administration is recommending pre-approval of funding to proceed with the following projects;

1. Contract to sealing maintenance hole covers in low lying areas

2. Develop an educational program to outline measures that can be implemented on private property to reduce the risk for flooding

3. Update the Development Standards Manual

4. Mandatory downspout disconnection pilot program and monitoring

5. The engineering and land acquisition for the Lauzon Parkway Sewer and Road Rehabilitation Project, from Hawthorne to Cantelon: There is an opportunity to incorporate the design of the recommended storm sewer, sanitary sewer, Low Impact Development(LID) with a proposed roadwork project. As this area is currently in need of road repairs, there are some cost efficiencies in completing the full design of sewers to reduce risk of flooding in this area as part of the overall project.

Risk Analysis:

Climate change is causing severe weather events to happen more frequently and with greater intensity. The most recent two storms (2016 and 2017) resulted in insured losses totalling $300 million. As the short-term and long-term solutions contained in the Sewer and Coastal Flood Protection Master Plan are implemented, incremental benefits to the system will be realized thereby reducing the risk of basement, surface and coastal flooding. The recommended solutions will reduce, but not eliminate instances of flooding a nd therefore reduce future flood losses.

The Sewer and Coastal Flood Protection Master Plan has set a clear path for reducing the risk of flooding in the City of Windsor. Implementing the recommendations contained in the Plan will take many decades to complete. Events such as a significant storm event or perhaps the sustained absence thereof may present a distraction to sticking with the recommendations contained in the plan. In order to reduce the risk and impact of future flood events, careful consideration by future Councils should be given to implementing the short-term and long-term recommendations contained in the Plan.