Damages to McGill University’s campus have reached several millions of dollars and could continue to rise, according to the Montreal Gazette.
The damage caused by flooding from the McTavish Reservoir was originally estimated as hundreds of thousands of dollars.
McGill’s principal and vice-chancellor Heather Munroe-Blum told the Gazette it is still unknown who is responsible for paying the costs in damages, and does not know if the city will help fix it.
Munroe-Blum told the Gazette that the provincial government did not show sensitivity towards the school.
She said the government called the university twice to question the flood’s impact on any research or labs, and asked university administrators where they were with the $19 million in budget cuts imposed in December.
The 40,000 cubic metres of water that broke from the McTavish Reservoir, looked like the Niagara Falls, Munroe-Blum said.
The impacts of the flood are still causing class relocations.
