My wife and I are property owners who live just north of the hospital. In the three years we have lived in our home, we often complained to ourselves about the mini-lake that formed after every rainfall in the back lane adjacent to our driveway. With the heavy spring and early summer rainfall this year, we noticed that our “lake bed” was getting deeper and larger.
About a week ago, a City of Salmon Arm works crew was doing routine storm sewer maintenance in the street at the front of our house. I approached one of the workers with our concerns. He walked with me to the back lane, reviewed the lane situation (which was dry at the time), and gave me a name and phone number to call at the city’s works department.
Just a couple of days later, even before I had a chance to call the number, a crew arrived, determined a way to divert the water to a nearby storm drain, and fixed the problem.
Our many thanks and appreciation to those involved at city works for handling our concern in such a timely manner.
Ronn & Shelley Boeur
