The Romanian Canal is being cleaned and the stormwater system is being repaired in Odesa

Employees of the municipal enterprise "City Roads" continue to carry out planned work on the maintenance of rainwater drainage systems from the city streets.

This was reported bythe Odesa City Council.

The company's specialists are repairing and cleaning stormwater collectors, grates of rainwater inlets and rainwater wells, as well as specialized hydraulic structures, including stormwater ditches and a buffer pond. Utility workers are removing silt, fallen leaves, garbage and reeds from the systems.

This week, the planned work is being carried out on the Romanian Canal, which is being cleaned with an excavator. A rainwater inlet at 33 Primorskaya Street has also been repaired.

According to the company, work on cleaning the drainage systems is carried out constantly throughout the city. Employees regularly clean the grates of the inlets from leaves and random debris brought in by rainwater to ensure that water can drain freely from the streets.

• Since the beginning of 2026, the utility has already completed
• Cleaning of gutters and ditches - 1573 linear meters
• cleaning of rainwater inlets - 363 units
• cleaning of collectors and flushing of pipes - 529 meters
• repair of stormwater collectors - 4 meters

During heavy precipitation , City Roads crews additionally work on the streets of the city to prevent flooding.

As a reminder, on September 30, 2025, 286 private houses and 384 apartment buildings were flooded in Odesa. The Kyivskyi district was hit hardest. Roads and utility networks were severely damaged. Operational headquarters of district administrations recorded 782 appeals from Odesa residents about flooding, fallen trees, power outages and property damage. Hennadiy Trukhanov, who was still the mayor of Odesa at the time, said this in a video message on October 1.

According to the State Emergency Service, rescuers spent almost a day eliminating the consequences of the storm, rescuing 362 people and evacuating 227 cars. Nine people died. Five of them drowned in a house on the ground floor in Sergei Eisenstein Lane. Nearby, on Rybalska Street, a young woman drowned in a stream of water. The body of another victim was found on the neighboring Dacha Kovalevsky Street.

Андрій Колісніченко