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The city’s basement flooding protection program will dry up by the end of the year.

A report destined for Monday’s water and waste committee meeting recommends terminating the homeowner-subsidy program that began in 2011.

TYLER BROWNBRIDGE / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES Pumps are used to clear a flooded basement. A city report recommends the end to a subsidy program that helps homeowners prevent basement flooding.

City councillors were told in August that the provincial government was pulling the plug on funding half of the $1-million program that helped offset the cost installing in-line backwater valves and sump pump-pit drainage systems.

The program, in which homeowners are refunded 60 per cent of the costs after the work is completed, has always operated with the province's participation.

The report recommends the city continue with the program for the rest of the year, using the $500,000 currently budgeted.