Our supporters over at the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation just released an interim report on the Home Flood Protection Program. Authored by Dr. Blair Feltmate, Cheryl Evans and Natalia Moudrak, we can read first hand that there are things we can do to better protect ourselves from flooding!
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SafeSump and the Collingwood Smart Stormwater Pilot Project just got mentioned in the news on PeakFM. This comes a few days after Martin Rydlo of the Town of Collingwood and Kerri Mcdonald of the Environment Network were invited to the PeakFM studies and elaborate on our project. If you missed…
Great Article on the Collingwood Smart Stormwater Pilot Project. Click here to read the whole article. Lots of interest on the free sump pump systems – but it’s not too late to sign up. Go to the collingwoodpilotproject.com website, and complete the information, which will then be entered into the…
Thank You to All who visited the Collingwood Smart Stormwater Project Open House last night – we appreciate you spent your time to come and get more information! Thanks also to those who put their names on the list of potential Free Sump Pump System installations. Thanks to our amazing…
Fellow project partners Kerri McDonald from the Environment Network and Martin Rydlo from the Town of Collingwood had an interesting radio discussion today about the pilot project we are jointly involved in. Their conversation outlines the motivations behind our study along with our unique approach to solving stormwater issues in…
There will be an Open House on Thursday November 23rd from 5-7 at the Leisure Time Club at 100 Minnesota Street. Drop by to get more information on the project and find out how you can receive a free SafeSump system!
Local Team Tackles Basement Flooding with Stormwater Technology Pilot Collingwood, ON, November 14, 2017: A group of local organizations have come together to develop the first ever stormwater technology pilot focused on reducing the risk of basement flooding during increasingly extreme weather events. The stormwater technology pilot is a partnership…
“You’re far better off to prepare and get ahead of the curve than just keep waiting for these things to happen,” says Blair Feltmate, head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo. The severity of extreme weather is only increasing as Canadians are being forced…
The Intact Centre for Climate Adaptation has been in the news lately due to the release of their excellent and informative report on wetlands. Among other facts, we could learn that wetlands could reduce the financial impact of floods by nearly 40%. You can download the whole report “When the…
Congratulations to our Joint Venture Partner, Greenland International Consulting/Greenland Technologies Group, on being a finalist in Water Canada Magazine’s Water’s Next Award 2017! President Mark Palmer and his team strive to be industry innovators, and have an amazing capacity to recognize the big picture and connect and establish strategic partnerships…