Winnipeg water, sewer & drainage 311 requests

How many 311 requests in the water, sewer & drainage category residents of Winnipeg have filed since January 2023.

Current release

Data through March 2025

Data from January 2023 through March 2025

Open data

Total Requests

5.6K

in the water, sewer & drainage category

Latest Month

77

March 2025

Share of total

6.2%

of all Winnipeg 311 requests

Monthly water, sewer & drainage requests

How many water, sewer & drainage 311 requests Winnipeg residents file each month.

How this category is extracted

What counts as water, sewer & drainage: Water main breaks and leaks, sewer backups, storm drain clogs, catch basin concerns, and flooding.

In Winnipeg’s raw 311 feed, the following 2 service_type values roll into water, sewer & drainage:

  • Sewer & Drainage
  • Water

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <winnipeg_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'Sewer & Drainage',
  'Water'
)

Analyst tip: Austin uses 'AW -' (Austin Water) and 'WPD -' (Watershed Protection Department) prefixes. Calgary uses 'WATS -' (Water and Sewer). NYC uses 'WATER LEAK' and 'Water System'. Baton Rouge has a broader 'ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES' that may include non-water items — cross-check against the raw feed if precision matters.

See how water, sewer & drainage is defined for every tracked city →

Source & provenance

Counts on this page are derived from Winnipeg’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2023 through March 2025. Category assignment uses a hand-curated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at data.winnipeg.ca.

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