A series of 12 projects in Riverside and East Riverside has been announced to ease flooding in major storms.
Back-to-back years with massive flooding in storms pushed the city to develop a plan to help the worst affected area.
At a news conference at City Hall on Monday, Mayor Drew Dilkens laid out the plan to spend $89-million over ten years and call on the federal government for funding.
He pointed to Ottawa's Disaster, Mitigation and Adaptation Fund as the source for 40 per cent of the money, about $32-million.
Dilkens says the project its the rebuild of the Belle Perche sewer line to nearly triple capacity.
"It is an extensive upgrade to the sewer system, and that happens on Belle Perche from Tranby Avenue to the St. Paul Pump Station," says Dilkens. "The project execution for a project that size will take three phases and it will take 10 years to do all that work"
Windsor City engineer Mark Winterton and Mayor Drew Dilkens with flood mitigation map, July 23, 2018 (by AM800's Peter Langille)
He adds the East Marsh area will be brought from its current rural streets without curbs or gutters to full city cross-sections.
"This project consists of the reconstruction of the local roadways and the redirection and resizing of local storm sewers along Florence Avenue, along Menard, along Eleanor Street, along Clover, along Clairview Street, Adelaide Street all in the East March area to increase the service in that system," says Dilkens.
The full report goes to city council Monday evening for approval.
If approved, an application can be made to the federal government.
The mayor says the work will be done regardless of how much is funded by Ottawa, it will just mean finding other ways to pay for it.
More than 6,000 basements in Windsor flooded in last August's downpour alone.