Residents in Wards 6 and 7 in Windsor are getting a postcard from the city to remind them to take an online survey about basement flooding.
City Engineer Mark Winterton says even if your home did not flood last September, the city needs your input.
"In this particular instance, it hit the east side of the city particularly hard. But as Mother Nature is unpredictable, the next time we have a major rainstorm it could be anywhere in the city," he says.
Winterton says the city needs to know what residents are doing to prevent basement flooding for the next major weather event.
He says the postcards are not going out because the response to the survey has been slow so far.
"Feedback has been very strong. We've got actually more than we were anticipating," he says. "We have a statistically significant number to be able to get some appropriate data."
The survey is available online and wraps up at the end of April. It should not take more than ten minutes to fill out, and hard copies are available by calling the 311 Call Centre.
Once it has the information, city council can decide if existing mitigation programs are working, if more programs are needed and if it needs to spend more capital funding on things like sewers.
