With high wind and waves pounding the Lake Erie shoreline through the night, officials with the Lower Thames Valley Conservation Authority say we haven’t seen the last of flooding in the area.
Water Management Supervisor, Jason Wintermute, says it doesn’t take much for the area to flood.
“The threshold now seems to be anything over 35 kilometres an hour coming in a southerly direction seems to be enough to trigger flooding down on that stretch,” Wintermute says. “That’s a pretty common wind speed for October and November, so there’s a good chance we’ll see this kind of thing repeating through to the end of the year.”
Wintermute says there have already been a few cases of drainage catch basins getting clogged by yard waste, so residents along the shoreline can do their part to help reduce the risk of property damage.
