Celebrating the West Plug Removal

[@cracksmith]

Love watching the progress on this project!

[@blxvkpxndx]

This is a huge milestone. You all should be patting yourself on the back. You really did one for the history of the city. Congratulations. I cannot wait to see the park and all the other amenities that will be coming soon.❤

[@pbear6251]

All we got was talk and a ceremony as well as some outtakes. Where was the actual plug removal??

[@nicklang7670]

This Waterfront Toronto organization is not a government organization. They want the land sold to developers.

[@pbear6251]

@@nicklang7670 All the models I have seen in the past contain some sort of housing in the area. Is that what you mean? I know it used to be a commercial area in the last century because I have delivered to warehouses that used to be there when the Toronto Harbour used to commercial operations.

[@WaterfrontToronto]

This video was a recap of the event we held to celebrate the removal of the plug. The work to remove the plug is happening underwater and not visible - it also takes a long time, so it’s not one big moment you can film. But we did make a video about how it works if you’d like to learn more: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bn-zha2Ebs6Fg5osi=U4zbrBgc7CkCcBP_

[@pbear6251]

@@WaterfrontToronto Thanks for the reply and the link

[@iamisaidi]

Looking good

[@aliquraishi3525]

According to the Toronto Star article "There is the Port lands gas plant whose emissions seven times too high for new development at mouth of Don River. Nitrogen oxide levels are far above legal limits at the height of a planned development at Villiers Island, an air quality assessment has found. The result could put a cap on the scale of the new community at the centre of a massive, publicly funded reclamation project." The cost of relocating the Port lands gas plant is very high.

[@TheNewMediaoftheDawn]

It looks like it will look awesome when the green comes in. Please rebuild that lakeshore ramp west of Carlaw and please speed up the Gardner lane openings downtown there is a multi-billion dollar film industry in the Port Lands that depends on it flowing, not to mention lots of other citizens too, thx

[@integralexpo]

lol dont drink that water

[@dirkwares]

Actually the water is now safe to drink, as it is being filtered naturally.

[@Gravitics]

@@dirkwares definitely not safe to drink, yummy dvp runoff

[@integralexpo]

@@dirkwares tell that to the people running the treatment plant up river 🤣

[@Xocolatben]

Wow! I wonder how big the mosquitoes will grow? They designed and built a pretty swamp and are so proud!

[@xxcurtisx21x]

Great, now how about the Waterfront LRT....

[@bitey-facepuppyguy2038]

It's not 1.3 BILLION cubic meters, but 1.3 MILLION cubic metres.

[@WaterfrontToronto]

Oops! You’re right. We had our camera operator giving these additional tid-bits, and he must have gotten mixed up with the 2 billion marshmallows. Good catch, super fan!

[@fireofhislove3395]

As an Aboriginal person I appreciate you acknowledging Aboriginal history. However, you are not obligated morally to facilitate any form of spiritual ritual.

[@tracidelacruz966]

Once the mouth opens, can people canoe/kayak into the new section?

[@WaterfrontToronto]

Parts of the river are still under construction, so it is not yet open to paddlers. It will be open to the public next summer, in 2025.

[@apocalypseofdeath3244]

@@WaterfrontToronto i have a question i noticed alot of homeless people will try to live in this beautfuil place will they be kicked out ? they might ruined the place with garbage.

[@B.D.F.]

“How many marshmallows do you think it would take to fill the river that we’ve built.” Why do people always make these weird comparisons? What next, “How wide is the new bridge we installed? It’s 18 fridges wide!”?

[@INFINITE-IA]

What effect did this have on the DVP floods this year if there was a 50-ton plug at the end of the Don River?

[@integralexpo]

probably wont even make a difference, seeing as its already connected to the lake through the keating channel, will be interesting to see when its removed though

[@WaterfrontToronto]

The Port Lands Flood Protection protects against a Regulatory storm, which in Toronto is defined as a ‘Hurricane Hazel’ sized storm. The storms we’ve had this summer, though intense, were far below the magnitude of a Regulatory event. The fact the plug was still in place (and in fact, a second one at the north end of the river is also still there), did not have any effect on the flooding since it was not severe enough to impact the floodplain this project is designed to protect. This project was never designed to mitigate flooding on the DVP which was built within the flood plain of the Don River; the only way to prevent flooding of the DVP is to rebuild the highway at a higher elevation. Another way to think about it is this: As the Don River flows south, it encounters two bottlenecks: the first bottleneck is near the area of the DVP that floods, the second bottleneck is at the south end where it meets Lake Ontario. When the river floods, the water builds up behind the first bottleneck and overtops its banks at that location. Removing the second (southern) bottleneck does not reduce the bottleneck farther north since the water flows through that one first. You can learn more about the flood risk we are working to remove here: portlandsto.ca/flood-risks-in-toronto/

[@integralexpo]

@@WaterfrontToronto That makes sense. However if there is any increase of flow at the new mouth it could help a little bit.. maybe/hopefully 😂Thanks for the descriptive reply!

[@JustinJamesJeep]

Why repost this after posting yesterday?

[@WaterfrontToronto]

Hi there, we reposted it to fix a small typo.

[@hbandere]

Land acknowledgement irrelevant. Show us the plug

[@colintilbrook]

honestly... i love this project, but this was a terrible video. why was there less than 20 seconds coverage of the plug removal, you didn't even mention the engineering involved, this was a smattering of lip service spread around a weird jeopardy segment. like what is this video guys.

[@hbandere]

More applauding the existence of indigenous people than there was plug removal

[@WaterfrontToronto]

This video was a recap of the event we held to celebrate the removal of the plug. If you’d like to learn more about the engineering side, we recommend this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bn-zha2Ebs6Fg5osi=U4zbrBgc7CkCcBP_

[@bradlevantis913]

When Keating ended the Don at a right angle islets amazing no one anticipated the impact From my understanding this won’t prevent future flooding and that should be made clear because there is a belief that this is a fix for lower Don floods

[@rah2389]

the whole point was to fix flooding just more taxes down the drain

[@WaterfrontToronto]

PLFP protects the Port Lands, and portions of Leslieville and South Riverdale from flooding during a Regulatory Storm event, which is a storm equivalent to Hurricane Hazel. The storms we’ve had this summer, though intense, were far below the magnitude of a Regulatory event. This project was never designed to mitigate flooding on the DVP which was built within the flood plain of the Don River; the only way to prevent flooding of the DVP is to rebuild the highway at a higher elevation.

[@Mwoo92]

Your videos covering this project are so sedate and boring. This shit is awesome and you make it seem like these people are there for a funeral.

[@JustinJamesJeep]

Right! 😴

[@christian348]

Omg you're not watching NFL relax.

[@JustinJamesJeep]

@@christian348 obviously not, then I'd really be sleeping 😂

[@LaggyArms]

It was a funeral. For the indigenous people they expropriated remember? The natives that “used” to live there? 😮. We shall not speak of those atrocities. They are lost in history, just like war and racism.

[@AlikVolkov]

​@@LaggyArms Wrong. The Crown purchased this land from First Nations hundreds of years ago. And when it came out several years ago that it wasn't a fair price, Toronto paid millions more. So no, this wasn't stolen land. On top of that, it's incorrect to assume that First Nations were living some kind of beautiful, perfect, balanced, and harmonious life with each other and nature. They were brutal as well.

[@bluenose10]

It sounds like the only reason they did this huge seven year project was to restore the meeting place for a number of indigenous peoples.

[@kevinn1158]

Blessing the water? Drinking it? Seriously is this 2024? Science people....science.

[@tompw3141]

What bad things does science say will happen if you bless the water?

[@kevinn1158]

@@tompw3141 It does nothing. It represents an dark past when religious beliefs dominated our culture. Once upon a time they were telling people the earth was the centre of the universe, stars were winds to heaven, mentally ill people were witches and possessed by the devil. And the good ol' catholics forced all those indigenous kids into residential schools to indoctrinate them into their cult.... that didn't work out so well did it? Let's leave the hocus pocus in the past.

[@WaterfrontToronto]

This video is a very abridged version of the event - the water used in the ceremony was from the river, however we also had another vessel of clean water from another source for the drinking portion!

[@kevinn1158]

@@WaterfrontToronto I figured. The new arm to the river is a great addition as well as those gorgeous bridges. But I honestly don't see the point in any of these symbolic gestures. Pandering to tribalism or ancient "belief systems" keeps us back from being progressive and modern culture. I personally find it repulsive that we are still doing these kinds of things. We got rid of prayers in our schools, let's get rid of this nonsense in public works as well.

[@integralexpo]

@@kevinn1158 did you forget how liberal this country is 🤣

[@LaggyArms]

You mean you were building this during Covid? I thought outside was bad during 2020-2022? How could they be allowed outside to build a bridge no one was using? 😮. Politicians always know what’s good for the people 🙄

[@tompw3141]

Err, no-one uses a bridge that's under construction, lol. The bridge is already used now, and will be used more as development happens to the south.

[@jsks76905]

Horrible video. I saw fluff quiz for politicians and not much else. What a waste of time and tax payer money. This feels more like a political promo piece. I want my 3 minutes back.

[@johnwindisman2803]

Love how your cherry pick the Indigenous peoples from only 500 years ago. All the ones you listed stole the land from those that who were here 1000 years ago (Hopewells) and they stole the land from their predecessors the Adena. STOP with this virtue signaling. There is no such thing as an indigenous people. All peoples are indigenous. It just depends on what time and place you slice history. Praising one over the over is disingenuous.

[@JeremyMacDonald1973]

The Hopewells where not so much a specific group of people as they where a style of culture. The indigenous of 500 years ago are likely predominately the descendants of the people of the Hopewell cultures that dominated 1000 years before that. Sure humans do move around so no doubt some groups of indigenous people that where not a part of the Hopewell cultures but a part of some other cultures did show up in the area and no doubt some people that descend from the Hopewell cultures left the area but there is no particular reason to believe that this took place for the entire or even the majority of the population.

[@kman_34]

triggered

[@tompw3141]

Hey bud, are you doing OK?

[@johnwindisman2803]

@@kman_34 Yup. I hate this virtue signaling crap.

[@johnwindisman2803]

@@JeremyMacDonald1973 You make my point. Thanks

[@laurentbeaulieu4443]

Give us a break with the indigenous people. You are only saying this because you are told to by the Trudeau Gov to get funding. It is all paid for my CANADIAN TAXPAYERS, so cut the crap. It's for all Canadians not just indigenous.

[@kman_34]

triggered

[@TheNewMediaoftheDawn]

Did they mention it wasn’t for all other Canadians to use? I didn’t hear that…. But I understand snowflakes sometimes get triggered easily. Lol

[@ExtremelyGullibleMeme]

@@laurentbeaulieu4443 your pfp looks so funny he looks so done with everything