The City of Calgary is facing a barrage of calls to remove pools of water unable to drain down city storm drains due to a buildup of ice.
Corey Colbran, manager of wastewater services, said on Wednesday there's a backlog of nearly 1,300 calls they're trying to respond to.Leftover snow piles throughout Calgary are being exposed to warm days and frigid nights, which leads to the pooling water freezing and continuing to cover over catch basins day after day.
"The last year we saw something like this was 2018, so we do deal with some degree of this every year, but certainly this year is a lot more just because of the amount of snow and how packed it's gotten," Colbran says."We do know we have some problem areas, we are working to get to those," Colbran said.Dean Dolph, a homeowner in Rutland Park, says he waited more than five days for the city to come, all while watching the water creep closer and closer to his garage.
As of Wednesday evening, the large puddle remained, lapping at the sandbags because the street was still not draining properly.
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