Construction has wrapped up in Weaver Park on Saskatoon’s third Flood Control Strategy project. The playground has reopened, but the new dry storm pond will remain fenced off until fall 2024 to allow the new sod and trees time to establish.

Director of Saskatoon Water Russ Munro says during intense summer storms, rainwater would pool and cause significant flooding around Cascade Street, Dufferin Avenue and Bute Street intersections and with the storm pong the water will now flow through an upgraded storm sewer system and into the new pond. The pond temporarily stores the water which eventually drains back through the underground pipe system and into the South Saskatchewan River.

When not serving as a flood control strategy the pond will be dry and used as a recreation area. Flood Control Strategies were approved for nine of Saskatoon’s most flood prone areas. So far they have been built W.W. Ashley Park and Churchill Park. Construction on the City’s fourth FCS project will begin in Brevoort Park South in early 2024.