STEPHEN RICCIO
MUNICIPALITY OF PONTIAC
March 27, 2021
A washed out road in Plage Charron, a private beach association near Eardley, due to heavy rain on March 26 was partially repaired on March 27, according to Municipality of Pontiac Mayor Joanne Labadie.
The incident occurred . . .
in the evening on the Friday when a slightly undersized culvert failure caused a section of the road to collapse at the intersection of chemin Clark and chemin Kennedy.
Due to the culvert being private property, Labadie said that the municipality wasn’t permitted to provide direct resources to solve the washout.
“The municipality provided them with barricades but then they got a private contractor to come in and fill it temporarily and they will apply for a possible compensation from the Ministry of Public Security, but we cannot do work on private property,” she explained.
She said the municipality’s fire department and the coordinator of emergency measures helped coordinate a plan for emergency vehicles to still get in while the section remained washed out.
Labadie added that there was another related incident in the Breckenridge area of the municipality from the same day, when a culvert was blocked with ice. She said that the municipality helped in setting that private beach association up with a contractor who was able to unblock the ice to ensure that water did not flow over top of the road.
