Toronto Lower Don Lands Redevelopment | ?m | ?s | Waterfront Toronto

The aftermath:

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‘Land o’ Lakes’:

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Murky and some flotsam and jetsam:

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Appears to be the birth of a new path near the north end of Lemon.

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Finessing the edges…

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Meanwhile near Orange, life (and tree planting) must go on…

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Surveying the debris…

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They will undoubtedly have to clean this up…

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hawc said:
Speaking of, was Evergreen Brickworks flooded yesterday? Any pics?

I remember walking though there things like power outlets etc are all mounted 5 feet up the walls and some original pillars have a red line on them showing how high a flood they expect to roll through there every few decades.

Last night went and looked at Bayview & Dundas. There were fish as long as an adult's arm splashing around in the water covering Bayview. Some homeless guys that live under the bridge were trying to grab them. Funny to be able to say you caught fish on the Bayview Extension.
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Credit Donna Chong - Beauty of the Don
 
Great shots of waters around Lemon & Cherry. I forget the scale of the river always looking at it from the drone. It really is big. Seeing the guy in the boat puts it in perspective. I guess all that debris floats so it's relatively easy to clean up, but will they have to eventually dredge the new river at some point years from now? And how do they do that without disturbing all those HUGE stones they put down?
 
hawc said:
Great shots of waters around Lemon & Cherry. I forget the scale of the river always looking at it from the drone. It really is big. Seeing the guy in the boat puts it in perspective. I guess all that debris floats so it's relatively easy to clean up, but will they have to eventually dredge the new river at some point years from now? And how do they do that without disturbing all those HUGE stones they put down?
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The sediment management area now under construction (by the Don yard) widen the river and slows down the flow to allow for suspended matter to settle, making it easier to deal with.

As to dredging the new river - the protective geotextile liner isolating the bed of the river from the contaminated soils underneath might be a challenge. I think the river was engineered in a way that would "flush" the deposits?

AoD
 
hawc said:
Great shots of waters around Lemon & Cherry. I forget the scale of the river always looking at it from the drone. It really is big. Seeing the guy in the boat puts it in perspective. I guess all that debris floats so it's relatively easy to clean up, but will they have to eventually dredge the new river at some point years from now? And how do they do that without disturbing all those HUGE stones they put down?
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I think the new river bed has been designed to 'self-scour just like real rivers do. The reason the Keating Channel needed to be dredged was that the water volumes /speeds were not strong enough to do this and the channel was poorly designed with tall straight walls that did not cause 'eddies'. They never, as far as I know, dredged further north than the Lake Shore bridge and do not expect to need to dredge the new valley either. I think they (WT) plan to do a major dredge of the Keating in next few months and then only need to deal with it occasionally - Ports Toronto have said they will not do more dredging there , so if any is done it will be a City responsibility.
 
More Pictures of the Brickworks:

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Pictures are from Evergreen Brickwork's Facebook page:

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Evergreen Brick Works | Toronto ON

Evergreen Brick Works, Toronto, Ontario. 7,177 likes · 177 talking about this · 63,933 were here. A reimagined historic brick factory in Toronto’s Don Valley. Run by Evergreen, a national not-for-pro
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Of note, they had 113 campers (kids) at the park at the time the flooding began. Happy to report, no injuries.
 
kotsy said:
www.thestar.com

Why the massive Don River redesign won’t stop flooding on the DVP — but what might

The heavy rainfall was only one part of why the Don, along with Toronto, flooded. A culmination of inadequate infrastructure, a worn-down system, climate change and other factors exacerbated the flooding.
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paywall bypass: https://archive.is/vAW8D
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The whole article is so alarmist. Just goofy.

Take this line for instance: The scenes were harrowing.

Really? Harrowing?

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People intentionally drove their car into waist deep water that was completely still and then they had to walk out or be walked out by a fireman. About as 'harrowing' as a dirty wading pool.
 
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hawc said:
The whole article is so alarmist. Just goofy. Take this line for instance: The scenes were harrowing.

Really?

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People intentionally drove their car into waist deep water that was completely still and then they had to walk out or be walked out by a fireman. About as 'harrowing' as a dirty wading pool.
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I think Toronto is so bereft of natural disasters that local media loves to exaggerate the ones we do have.
 
hawc said:
The whole article is so alarmist. Just goofy. Take this line for instance: The scenes were harrowing.

Really?
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I'm happy enough to agree that some of the superlatives overdone and that's fairly media 101............I mean at least it wasn't BlogTO..... 'Toronto Terrified by T-Storms" still....

hawc said:
People intentionally drove their car into waist deep water that was completely still and then they had to walk out or be walked out by a fireman. About as 'harrowing' as a dirty wading pool.
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However, this is a bit much the other way.

Sure some people were stupid, though I think you under estimate substantially the speed at which the water arrived and rose.

Below is a model showing something like what happened yesterday, but not the actual event:


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Look at the speed at which the river moves to maximum discharge.

It's important to realize that the river snapped large hydro polls and lifted cars........

If someone was caught by a current undertow the result could have been more than harrowing.

It just so happens, no one was.

But worth adding a similar flash flood in Nova Scotia this week killed a teenage boy, so it's not a stretch to speak of the danger here.
 
I guess it's all fun and games until hawc-san loses his Ferrari to a drowned DVP... 😼
 
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