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Old Barrhaven's 1970s–80s bungalows and split-levels sit on the same Champlain Sea clay plain as the rest of the catchment, and they've simply had the most winters to accumulate shrink-swell and freeze-thaw stress — that's why settlement cracks and heaved walkways show up there more than anywhere else in the community. Stonebridge and Half Moon Bay are a different animal: both were master-planned around golf courses, with curved streets and lot grading tied to the fairways rather than a standard grid, so driveways and patios were poured to irregular slopes from day one — uneven settling and drainage problems there often trace back to that original grading, not the concrete itself.

Heart's Desire, a 1970s pocket off Goodwood Drive, sits partly inside the mapped 100-year Jock River flood plain, and the real risk there is spring freshet — snowmelt plus rain over a week or two, not a single storm — so foundation waterproofing gets extra attention on that street. On the newest end, parts of Barrhaven South were raised out of the Jock River flood plain on engineered fill rather than undisturbed clay, which settles differently over time, and Cedarhill Estate — about a hundred custom homes on private septic since 1979 — has its own site-drainage profile entirely apart from the production-built streets around it.

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