Herb Gray Parkway construction may be to blame for residential flooding in LaSalle.
Lilly Magri lives in the affected Heritage Estates area in the town and had to deal with the knee-high flooding after the heavy rain on Saturday.
"It's just discouraging. We cringe when we hear it's going to storm," says Magri, dealing with a second flooding event in about a year. "Our insurance has given us a hard time definitely, especially the second claim. We don't know what to do."
Mayor Ken Antaya says the town's engineering department looked in to the flooding complaints.
"They have determined the runoff from the parkway impacted it to some extent; certainly it contributed," says Antaya, adding the town can't chase down the ministry for compensation just yet. "We just can't point a finger. You've got to determine, 'OK this is the proof that we have' and we have to come to some kind of conclusion on both sides."
Antaya says town staff have acted quickly by sending off a letter to the Ministry of Transportation asking to address the matter. The mayor expects still needed approvals for the parkway will be withheld by the town until the flooding concerns are dealt with.
Heritage Estates resident Andy Paterson hopes the flooding problem is dealt with sooner rather than later, "How it impacts us is not only the mental stress, but the time it takes to recover from it."
