Quebec is losing ground: the value of the work has exploded

Photo Amélie St-Yves
Jonathan Bisson, here with his family, would like to be compensated. “We are collateral victims,” he said.

Amélie St-Yves

Saturday, 16 December, 2017 01:00

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SAINTE-GENEVIÈVE-DE-BATISCAN An evacuated family from a year ago due to a landslide at its neighbors, is now planning to demolish his house because the value of the work to stabilize the ground exploded.

Jonathan Bisson, his wife Nancy Houle, and their two boys of six and eight years can no longer reside in their home since the 25th of November 2016.

On this day, Mr. Bisson was at work when the emergency was called to confirm that the landslide on agricultural land nearby threatened now his home.

Amélie St-Yves

The landslide (in the foreground in the photo on the right) is located 150 m from the residence of Bisson (surrounded in red), but according to the civil protection, the ground is unstable, and there may be additional landslides.

Evacuation permanent

The cracked area stopped m to 150 m behind the residence.

The evacuation was only supposed to last a few days, the time to do more testing, but it became permanent. The couple has had to rent another house for $ 700 per month.

The department of public Safety payroll, but they must still pay the mortgage of their house uninhabitable and has lost its value.

The government has offered a maximum assistance of $ 158,000, or to stabilize the ground, or to move the house or tear it down and go live elsewhere.

The family wanted to initially stabilize the terrain and return to live in his home which is completely renovated since 2005.

Insufficient

But the government assistance will be inadequate, as several new bills that were not included in the original assessment are added.

The value of work is increased from $ 150,000 to $ 207 000 $, without that government assistance can be adjusted accordingly, since the maximum is already reached.

Now, Jonathan Bisson is looking for him-even entrepreneurs who would like less expensive, because it does not want to invest $ 50,000 in his pockets. Otherwise, the house may well be demolished.

Stressful

Mr. Bisson believes to have been left to itself. “I had to make submissions and take a decision at the same time as school, work, family. In addition, it has been difficult to find a place to settle. It has been a month of December-January quite stressful, ” says Jonathan Bisson.