'We're getting through it': Ottawa residents continue difficult flood clean-up - by Tyler Fleming

The cleanup is underway in Ottawa neighbourhoods hard-hit by Wednesday’s record-breaking Canada Day rainstorm, with piles of soaked furniture, drywall and personal belongings lining streets as residents begin clearing-out flooded basements.

In the west-end neighbourhood of Crystal Beach, firefighters continued heading door-to-door conducting wellness checks on Friday as residents deal with the aftermath.

Many homes were flooded with sewage-contaminated water, forcing some homeowners to tear out drywall, carpeting, furniture and appliances.

In Bay Ward, Ottawa councillor Theresa Kavanagh is among those cleaning up, after her own basement flooded with about a metre of sewage-contaminated water.

“I’m fortunate my husband’s been doing a lot. It’s very difficult but we’re getting through it,” she says.

“A lot of people are affected, so they’ll be a special pickup to help people out and get that garbage out of the way. We got to get that messy, stinky stuff out of here and that’s very important. Like me, a lot of people had sewage going to their basement, not everybody, but it’s obviously contaminated, and everything has to go.”

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