Edmonton apartment complex residents not happy with how building management handled flooding response

Several residents of a south Edmonton apartment complex are either displaced or living in flooded conditions after heavy rainfall earlier this week crept into six units.

Several residents of a south Edmonton apartment complex are either displaced or living in flooded conditions after heavy rainfall earlier this week crept into six units, causing all sorts of damage.

“I couldn’t even see carpeting like it was just water everywhere,” Westbrook Estates tenant Lisa Yaremy said.

Ever since water seeped through Lisa Yaremy’s apartment earlier this week, her living room is in shambles.

“Thursday evening with all of the excessive rain, the water just started to come in,” Yaremy said. “Within minutes it was pooling.”

She isn’t the only one with a flooded floor, her next-door neighbours also had a large pool of water enter their apartment.

“My computer is totaled. It was in a puddle when we saw it when we woke up,” tenant Brandon Skavinsky said.

These tenants said shortly after the flooding, maintenance staff did come to drain out the water, remove carpet and add fans, but they were hoping for more.

“We can’t provide you another place to stay so you are most likely going to have to stay in a shelter,” another tenant Ivy Fenner said the building told her. “And being pregnant, I could not stand the idea.”