WHEREAS the integrated management of the principal reservoirs of the Ottawa River Basin is the responsibility of the Ottawa River Regulation Planning Board; and
WHEREAS the health and safety of people living along the banks of the Ottawa River is of critical importance; and
WHEREAS the floods that occurred in 2017 and again in 2019 are unusual events; and
WHEREAS the climate conditions that precipitated these events were not identical in those two years;
BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Municipal Council hereby asks the Provincial and Federal governments to establish a committee for the purpose of understanding what were the conditions that precipitated these floods in order to create management tools for the Ottawa River Basin; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT this committee be established as soon as possible in order to ensure that these events won’t happen in the future.