It is being reported that a vehicle hit a fire hydrant on Chaffey Street at approximately 4:30 p.m. on Friday, causing flooding to close both Chaffey and Cann streets.
Bystanders reported that a significant amount of water flowed out of the hydrant for approximately 1.5 hours before municipal employees managed to shut the hydrant down. The roads remained closed as of 7 p.m. Friday evening.
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Jim Sinclair says
1.5 hours to shut a hydrant down? Whatever happened to the Emergency Response Team ? I do hope we see an answer from the Councillor responsible and the District’s Engineer or whoever.
But it’s okay folks, same as the investigation into the sewage overflow by Hwy. 60 that only took over 2 weeks to elicit the comment “businesses and residents merely need to install a back-flow preventer and everything will be okay”. Obviously these high paid poohbahs have no idea what the supply and installation of these valves costs. With that statement from District of Muskoka Water and Sewers, they nicely dodged the liability bullet.
If that is a valid requirement, it should have been one before the sewer connections were allowed to be hooked into the network. Sure is funny how the right wording can be found when there’s an ‘Oops Aw SH.. ” event.
Brian Tapley says
Quick! Call MPAC before the puddle vanishes. Assessments and Tax on waterfront is much higher than ordinary land!!