Many New Brunswickers face choice after record flooding: clean up, or move
MAUGERVILLE, N.B. — For exhausted residents of the riverside communities of southern New Brunswick, the stressful process of cleaning up damaged properties and considering their future is underway in the wake of a record-breaking flood.
Water levels have been dropping steadily in the flood-stricken province, revealing structural damage in homes and businesses that often are not insured due to repeated inundations in recent decades.
In the community of Maugerville on the east side of the Saint John River, resident Sean Allen had over a metre of water spill into his home, wrecking the basement.
The moisture crept up into the joists of the main floor, meaning much of the first floor has been damaged as well, leaving him with some early estimates that repairs would be over $120,000.