The Habitat for Humanity store in Saint-Henri is blaming the City of Montreal for flooding in their basement.
Security camera footage shows two separate floods happening over the weekend.
The water was nearly 10 centimetres deep.
Officials at Habitat for Humanity, who run ReStore, blame recent construction work by the City of Montreal for the flooding.
Work to replace sidewalks and pipes along this stretch of Notre-Dame Street wrapped up in August.
Based on the colour and smell, staff suspect it was sewer water.
“Lots of the merchandise is no good because it’s contaminated with sewer water,” said store manager Claude Hebert.
Global News reached out to borough officials who refused to comment on this story.
The basement is 8,000 square feet and is filled with items donated from hardware stores and companies.
All the material is sold to benefit Habitat for Humanity.
Merchandise worth hundreds of thousands of dollars is now worthless.
“We still have over 200 doors that were on the floor,” said Hebert. “The base of the doors were in the water. We need to clean that out and throw them in the garbage.”
To make matters worse, these damaged goods were for a second store they are planning to open in St-Laurent.
With eight months worth of merchandise waterlogged, Hebert says they will likely be delayed.
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