Mapleton flood costs could hit $250,000
Mapleton Township is in the process of gathering necessary information and figures to apply for the Municipal Disaster Recovery Assistance program after the June 23 flood.
Director of public works Sam Mattina provided an update on July 25.
“I want to let council know that the remedial work has significantly impacted our departmental work plan and our ability to deliver on that plan by virtually doubling our workload,” he said.
“Although we’re making every attempt to maintain our level of work continuity, the impact is affecting our ability to deliver our projects in general.”
Councillor Marlene Ottens asked if Mattina had a total cost estimate for the flood.
“We’re working with the CAO and the director of finance, through the ... accounting system we are tracking some ... incremental costs,” he explained.
“We’re putting all that together and actually just this morning we did a preliminary calculation that we are somewhere in the $250,000 range.”
CAO Brad McRoberts explained the municipality must surpass a certain threshold to be eligible for funding. Beyond that, he said, there are further thresholds to determine the percentage of coverage.
“We’re just waiting to kind of get some more firm numbers I guess ... so we can get our total together and submit that and then determine if we’re eligible at that point - then the calculations start to happen,” McRoberts said.
“It’s kind of a process we’re working through as we’re trying to gather this information to ensure we’ve got the right data and the right kind of estimates to value what the damage was.”
