[DSCToronto]

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Diamond saws, live hawks, soil ovens: Eight things that helped make the new Don River valley

The mammoth project to restore the mouth of the Don River has had some unique problems — and solutions.

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[DSCToronto]

The 'foundation' of the old Cherry Bridge are almost all gone - they are now removing the 'build-up' on the south side of the Villiers Channel too.

 

[hawc]

Like it never existed...

 

[Bibi L]

 

[votemac]

 

[3Dementia]

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Leave our gorgeous new bridges alone.

 

[stjames2queenwest]

To be fair the graffiti in the photo above is clearly a paint marker not spray paint. But agreed, let us have nice things please.

 

[ear2ear]

There is something fundamentally human about using our environmental surroundings as a canvas for expression, be it freight trains, cave walls, new bridges, or renaturalized flood plains we convert into park space. It's all vandalism in some regard. I think our efforts are better spent critiquing the work rather than bemoaning the inevitable.

 

[skycandy]

Graffiti notwithstanding, it warms the cockles to see such an intense and concerted effort in this massive project by its impressive number of workers. Almost impossible to do a head count, but everywhere you look, there are teams of workers doing their part for the grander effort. A selection of morning shots today.

The final clearing of the large ‘mound’. With some scurrying bandits.

The observation tower removed, presumably to clear this entire space.

These look more like planters than stairs!

Playtime…

Wish I’d snapped an image a little earlier…when numerous irrigation sprayers were watering much of this area.

Curvy framing around the entire ‘structure’.

Finally a glimpse of the beavers and badlands beyond the owl.

 

[hawc]

Are they taking extra dirt (like the big mountains of it) off site somewhere by barge to Leslie Street Spit? Or are they just moving it around on site and making new hills etc?

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

Giant big hippy park in the port lands... <3

 

[DSCToronto]

Are they taking extra dirt (like the big mountains of it) off site somewhere by barge to Leslie Street Spit? Or are they just moving it around on site and making new hills etc?

They are placing the topsoil they have been collecting for years in places that need it.

 

[DSCToronto]

It looks to me as though they have already started to remove the north plug (into Keating Channel).

 

[xmyth_]

It looks to me as though they have already started to remove the north plug (into Keating Channel).

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Was that the part that was leaking?

 

[hawc]

Globe & Mail article this morning (behind paywall) about Villiers being another potential disaster. Can anyone post a summary of what it's saying?