{"id":780124,"date":"2026-07-04T16:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T16:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780124\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T16:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T16:40:10","slug":"ottawa-allowing-more-garbage-to-be-picked-up-following-canada-day-torrential-downpour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780124\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa allowing more garbage to be picked up following Canada Day torrential downpour"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The city of Ottawa is allowing construction waste to be picked up at the curb, starting Monday, after heavy rainfall flooded parts of the city on Canada Day, creating havoc for many residents.<\/p>\n

Environment Canada reported a total of 118 millimetres fell across the city on Wednesday, causing thousands of basements to flood and at least one apartment building to lose power, forcing many residents to relocate for weeks<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Starting Monday, \u201ca special collection operation is scheduled to be deployed, in addition to regular curbside collection,\u201d Alain Gonthier, the city\u2019s general manager of public works, wrote in a release.<\/p>\n

Additional trucks will help collect curbside garbage, \u201cincluding storm-related debris and up to two garbage cans of construction debris,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

But the city added that beyond the two extra garbage cans, it would not be collecting more.<\/p>\n

\u201cResidents will need to make those arrangements through their insurance or a contractor,\u201d Gonthier wrote.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Ottawa mayor on extreme Canada Day weather<\/a>:\"\"<\/p>\n

Ottawa mayor on extreme Canada Day weather<\/p>\n

Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe spoke to Ottawa Morning about Wednesday’s heat, thunderstorms and flooding and the resulting cleanup efforts.Starting in most affected areas<\/p>\n

The special collection is starting in three severely flood-impacted areas of the city: Bay Ward, College Ward and Knoxdale-Merivale Ward, before moving to other impacted wards.<\/p>\n

More than 3,200 basements flooded because of Wednesday\u2019s storm, the city wrote, and people are asked to leave their waste at the curb.<\/p>\n

For residents who have already had their regular curbside collection since Wednesday\u2019s storm, the city said a truck will be by as soon as possible and asked residents to leave their waste at the curb. It said it\u2019s trying to arrange for more collection vehicles to head to impacted neighbourhoods. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe ask residents for their patience,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAs a reminder, the three-item limit will not be enforced for properties impacted by basement flooding, and it may take multiple passes to collect all the waste created by this flooding. We ask that residents leave their waste at the curb.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-780124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}