Severe damage to key equipment resulted from the surge of water resulting from downpours on Canada Day.
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Two west-end councillors who toured the LRT‘s Moodie Station said they were shocked by the extent of the damage caused by flooding on July 1.
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College Coun. Laine Johnson and Bay Coun. Theresa Kavanagh toured the station with City of Ottawa and transit officials on Aug. 10 and shared their impressions of the extensive damage in separate social-media posts.
“What I saw, and what I heard, shocked me,” Johnson wrote. “It’s truly a disaster. We are all anxiously awaiting the assessment to know what the impact will be.”
In an interview, Johnson said the nearby Stillwater Creek wetland was overwhelmed by flooding from the intense Canada Day rainstorms as water backed up into Corkstown Yard and the transit station, and also washed out a section of the Queensway.
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“It’s amazing the pathway that the water carved, the stone it moved and displaced, the strength of the water,” she said. “It’s very visible from what has been washed away how powerful that current was.”