Taylor Creek Park Management Plan

[DSC]

Right, but the path is also the reason why the water pools there. As you note, they could have elevated the path and built some manner of allowing the water to drain from there - they certainly have done that elsewhere, so it's not like it is a foreign concept.

I too could have seen a pond or marsh as an idea "feature" for that spot, which is why I'm a bit flabbergasted to see that instead nothing was done other than "hopes and dreams".

Dan

Someone (@NorthernLight ??) might want to ask the PFR team - See https://www.toronto.ca/city-governm...gies/taylor-massey-sub-watershed-master-plan/ The Plan talks about drainage improvements.

 

[Northern Light]

Someone (@NorthernLight ??) might want to ask the PFR team - See https://www.toronto.ca/city-governm...gies/taylor-massey-sub-watershed-master-plan/ The Plan talks about drainage improvements.

The above plan, like most of the Ravine Stategy etc. is unfunded.

I'm pushing to get at least one of the signature projects pushed forward. We shall see.

 

[PL1]

They have paved the trail in the valley, and are just finishing paving the trail up the hill by the parking lot (they have the fence moved over so much to allow for said paving that I had to walk the Bike Share a bit).

View of the newly paved trail, and the copse of recently planted trees discussed above

 

[Natika33]

Sorry no pic (it was getting dark), but trail near Stan Wadlow is open now.

 

[6079 Smith W]

I took a picture last week as I rode through. The stonework and woodwork and bridgework is quite lovely.

 

[robmausser]

I took a picture last week as I rode through. The stonework and woodwork and bridgework is quite lovely.
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Nothing better than biking on freshly paved asphalt.

 

[PL1]

So as someone (@Northern Light ?) suggested earlier, these newly planted trees (near the newly rebuilt area by the Haldon entrance to the park) aren't doing well. I'd estimate 20% look quite sick. I image the flooding of a couple of weeks ago doesn't help. Photos from this afternoon, from west to east.

Edit: as pointed out below, Northern Light said these are the wrong trees for the soil/drainage, not that they weren't already doing well. This is what happens when typing out a post in my local park while enjoying a beer from the farmers' market

 

[Northern Light]

So as someone (@Northern Light ?) suggested earlier, these newly planted trees (near the newly rebuilt area by the Haldon entrance to the park) aren't doing well. I'd estimate 20% look quite sick. I image the flooding of a couple of weeks ago doesn't help. Photos from this afternoon, from west to east.

I don't know that I said they weren't doing well (pre-flood), but I said they wouldn't do well, because they are the wrong species to be planting for a low-lying floodplain.

What should have been planted was Silver Maple, not Sugar Maple; Balsam Poplar, White Birch, Trembling Aspen and Eastern White Cedar(there are a few) but the latter should be clustered together and not under the canopy of hardwoods, rather than Oaks and Basswoods.

This planting cost well into six figures.........sigh.