If catch basins are blocked and the water has nowhere to go, it ends up in people's basements, he said. Rahamat said the entire neighbourhood is concerned because the area is a flood-zone but he ...

City staff also received 66 calls for overflowing catch basins, with 23 resolved and 43 of those requests still pending. In all, the city received nearly 3,000 calls related to the rainfall and ...

The Credit Valley Conservation west of Toronto has issued an early notice of the potential for flooding, saying the snow melt could result in watershed runoff of up to 25 millimetres through Thursday.

Under the city’s regulations, any non-rainwater substance discharged into a catch basin is considered a “spill to the sewer system,” and violators can face fines up to $50,000 for a first ...