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Originally Posted by someone123
I wonder if they can do anything to mitigate the flooding.
The Sackville River floodplain has been an issue for years (though I guess this latest event was the worst one on record?). Long ago I was working in one of the Bedford office buildings when the parkade underneath flooded. It's not a big consolation to people who are affected but the flooding problems around Halifax are actually mild compared to a lot of regions due to the hilliness (floodplains being popular locations for cities as they tend to have fertile farmland; I wonder if the Bedford malls and sports field used to be farms?).
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Bedford Place was built on the Sackville River flood plain in the 1970s. It was filled in and levelled to be above expected flood levels for back then but we can see that is inadequate now and will be increasingly so in the future.
Had the flood plain not been filled in the flooding at other points along the river might not have been so bad. That's what flood plains are for. This would be a good time to remove the mall and rehabilitate the flood plan.
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