Kentville N.S. couple looking for accountability after home floods from water main break

A mates successful Kentville, N.S. is seeking accountability aft their basement flooded pursuing a h2o main interruption connected their street.

Heather Kroezen and her spouse unrecorded successful their location and person tenants successful the basement.

They were awoken conscionable earlier midnight connected Jan. 23 by their tenants, who told them their suite was being flooded with water.

“I panicked due to the fact that we person 2 ladies who are successful present with disabilities. So wondering what I’m going to bash with them. Where they’re going to go?” said Kroezen.

The mates instantly called the municipality to repair what was identified arsenic a h2o main break. However, adjacent aft the repair, that didn’t halt the deluge of water.

The location is close crossed from a ample ditch wherever the h2o had collected earlier travelling done an abandoned culvert that runs straight nether their property.

“It’s astir apt rotten. It’s precise old, truthful its astir apt from earlier the gathering was made, truthful the water’s going successful the culvert and astir the culvert and conscionable done the crushed nether the parking lot,” said Kroezen.

But present the question remains — who volition screen the outgo of repairs?

Kentville’s CAO explains the municipality does not ain the abandoned culvert and is truthful not liable for the damage.

Kroezen has since learned that the culvert is owned by the province.

“There’s perfectly nary mode that we tin spend it. But the biggest happening is it’s not adjacent astir us, it’s astir these radical person been misplaced. They don’t person a location now,” said Kroezen.

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