Saint John Development Won’t Impact Water Storage
SAINT JOHN– The real estate company proposing a major development on Saint John’s east side says the project won’t impact water storage.
The development, known as “The Crossing”, will be built on the 180-acre site between the Saint John Throughway and Ashburn Road, pending approval of a rezoning application and a municipal plan amendment filed with the City of Saint John.
The project’s developer, Horizon Management Ltd., hired WSP Canada Inc. (formerly known as Terrain Group) to complete a hydrology and hydraulic report for the proposed site. That report estimates that when fully developed, the project would use 17,000 cubic metres of flood storage but identified 400,000 cubic metres of compensatory storage on the property and another 125,000 cubic metres of potential flood-plain storage on nearby city-owned lands.
“This development has great potential to help deal with storm-water issues in the area significantly beyond the development’s needs,” noted Troy Northrup, of Horizon Management.
“We look forward to working with the City of Saint John and other authorities to develop ways to improve and manage the local watershed, not only for our project, but also to help improve the current local problems in the flood plain areas.”
WSP engineers have already reported that The Crossing development will have no negative impact on flooding in the Marsh Creek watershed whether additional storage is constructed or not.