EnviroTO
Senior Member
Are you telling me this picture isn't photoshopped?
Ed Norton? Don't get him angry or he'll turn in Ralf Krandem.
^^ ... no.
Wouldn't it be more logical to integrate a sewer into a bridge crossing the valley instead of buried underneath? If they need to bypass the sewer, why don't they just build an aboveground one. They could probably do it joint planning with the DRL and use the same bridge structure! (pure speculation there.)
Okay, well then I guess that my plan would be upgraded slightly to putting the entire works that goes through the valley in an aboveground aqueduct. I was assuming that the sewers met near O'Connor, actually outside the valley, but this is not the case, right?
That really seems like the easier solution right now to me. Just dig to shallower parts of the sewer outside the valley on either side and link it across using a bridge. Much better than maintaining the existing structure and digging a new sewer underground. It might be faster too, since time seems like it might be an issue.
Final report on the project is out - from the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee:
http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2014/pw/bgrd/backgroundfile-72336.pdf
Fascinating stuff - and there are photos of the damaged section of the trunk sewer - it's pretty disturbing.
AoD
Whoa. I thought it was a minor crack with the potential to worsen, not an averted catastrophe. Thanks for the link.