Pulling the Plug: How we’ll reconnect the Don River to the Lake

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Waterfront Toronto

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@fadeawayX
@fadeawayX 3 ай бұрын
I'm envious of Don and his crew, getting to engage in such a massive project that will have a lasting impact and benefit for untold millions in the future. Talk about leaving your mark in the world!
@GGoAwayy
@GGoAwayy 3 ай бұрын
Don's Don Crew?
@ash_iwn95
@ash_iwn95 3 ай бұрын
Best publicworks project in Toronto hands down
@johnandrews3568
@johnandrews3568 3 ай бұрын
This is super exciting to see an industrial wasteland turned to parkland. Chapeau!
@dougtheslug6435
@dougtheslug6435 3 ай бұрын
I worked down there in the 90's and 2000's in the movie industry shooting in abandoned lots and buildings, toxic land the smelled after a rain fall, tent cities popping up from time to time, tons of crime and drugs at night, it's not somewhere you'd travel or walk the dog. I'm long gone now and retired in a northern small town but this is certainly a trip worth taking to see this, nice work.
@riseofazrael
@riseofazrael 3 ай бұрын
It's nice to see dilapidated land being turned into something beautiful. This is a wonderful project.
@GWNorth-db8vn
@GWNorth-db8vn 2 ай бұрын
When the Queen came to Toronto on her coronation tour in the fifties, they dumped tanker trucks of perfume in the Don to try to ease the stink a bit. It's been slowly improving over the decades. I remember it being intolerable in the 60's.
@DavidTurner11
@DavidTurner11 3 ай бұрын
Don workin' on the Don!
@dam-q9l
@dam-q9l 3 ай бұрын
It's going to be a fantastic new environment for fish, plants, and hopefully amphibians and turtles. The new fish breeding areas will eventually help anglers as well. Love it and Gratz to those who worked on the project. It must feel wonderful completing such a valuable project.❤
@bruceh92
@bruceh92 3 ай бұрын
Gratz ?
@terrygelinas4593
@terrygelinas4593 3 ай бұрын
Brilliant. Well explained!
@alexismantell447
@alexismantell447 3 ай бұрын
Torontonians can be proud of this. Imagine being one of the divers who can say they cut the beams that connected the river to the lake.
@quick_xplorer312
@quick_xplorer312 2 ай бұрын
Congrats nice work
@JT-xq6eq
@JT-xq6eq 2 ай бұрын
This is SO COOL.
@user-cm5tv3qg8o
@user-cm5tv3qg8o 3 ай бұрын
Incredible project for the entire country!
@PMofKhanadah
@PMofKhanadah 3 ай бұрын
How. The entire country doesn't live in toronto.
@GGoAwayy
@GGoAwayy 3 ай бұрын
How do they clean up all the concrete rubble from the busted up wall that will be on the riverbed?
@WaterfrontToronto
@WaterfrontToronto 3 ай бұрын
Bigger chunks are removed by an excavator. The smaller rubble pieces remain behind on the river bed. We’ll do a bathymetric survey to ensure that as much debris as necessary is removed.
@evelynsaungikar9449
@evelynsaungikar9449 3 ай бұрын
Add them to Tommy Thompson park!
@pbilk
@pbilk 2 ай бұрын
​@@WaterfrontToronto Good to know, I was curious too. Thanks!
@lawoftheuniverse8089
@lawoftheuniverse8089 2 ай бұрын
They will get some minimum waged kids to pull it out then ship it to Scarborough
@muchss
@muchss 3 ай бұрын
The measures to naturalize the mouth of the Don River seem more like an urban development project than a true freshwater estuary. While the project may include green spaces and engineered water channels, the lack of genuine estuarine features is a significant flaw. A natural estuary is a complex ecosystem, crucial for supporting diverse wildlife, nutrient cycling, and water filtration. Instead of prioritizing these ecological functions, the design appears to focus more on urban aesthetics and flood control, with an emphasis on infrastructure. This approach fails to fully restore the natural dynamics of the river, reducing its potential to support biodiversity and ecological resilience.
@YogZab
@YogZab 2 ай бұрын
While every word you say is true, it is and has been for decades or centuries a very urban environment. ✌️
@forbeshutton5487
@forbeshutton5487 3 ай бұрын
And what was the total cost of the project?
@WaterfrontToronto
@WaterfrontToronto 3 ай бұрын
The total project will cost $1.35B. This includes a kilometer-long extension of the Don River, new roads, utilities, bridges, wetlands and parks. You can learn more about what we’re building here: portlandsto.ca/project-details/
@Mwoo92
@Mwoo92 3 ай бұрын
Why is the river north of the plug a different colour from the new river? Is that a difference in water quality, or something else?
@martybarons761
@martybarons761 3 ай бұрын
The water north of the north plug has more sediment, so it's darker.
@WaterfrontToronto
@WaterfrontToronto 3 ай бұрын
Hi there, In this video, the shot you see around 2:03 is from before we started removing the North Plug. The water in the new river valley was only lake water at that point. Lake water tends to be clearer than river water because it has less sediment in it. The water in the existing Don River/Keating Channel is a highly urban water channel, which results in lots of sediment. Sediment is also more common in river water because it stays suspended more easily in moving water. When it reaches the lake, the water moves more slowly and the sediment sinks to the bottom.
@tomrogers9467
@tomrogers9467 3 ай бұрын
Because the water in the Don River is mostly sewage overflow and industrial waste.
@Wilem35
@Wilem35 2 ай бұрын
So its already connected?
@Frandolphus
@Frandolphus 3 ай бұрын
Will here be some sort of filtration system for the Don water, before it flows into the lake?
@WaterfrontToronto
@WaterfrontToronto 3 ай бұрын
The Don River has always flowed into Lake Ontario. For the past century or so, it has flowed via the Keating Channel. We’re building a renaturalized river channel for it to flow through in addition to the Keating Channel. This work also includes a sediment and debris management area, where we will capture some of the debris that flows down the river and allow for some of the sediment to drop out of the river before entering the new river channel, but it does not include a filtration system.
@geoffreylee5199
@geoffreylee5199 3 ай бұрын
The old turning basin was way too small!
@ym2173
@ym2173 2 ай бұрын
Sorry, his name is Don?
@WaterfrontToronto
@WaterfrontToronto 2 ай бұрын
Yes, his name is really Don. Working on the Don.
@MH_Bikes
@MH_Bikes 3 ай бұрын
Finally, the old right hand 90° turn was far too industrial.
@bruceh92
@bruceh92 3 ай бұрын
They would have had to dig up lots of things at the mouth of the Don during all this work. Any cars? Bodies? C'mon, let us in on this.
@WaterfrontToronto
@WaterfrontToronto 2 ай бұрын
Most of the objects found during our excavation to create a river valley through the Port Lands were deposited in the 1900s either as garbage or during lakefilling. You can check out what we found here: portlandsto.ca/construction/pictures/found-objects/
@paulpeachey2212
@paulpeachey2212 3 ай бұрын
Let's get accurate. Connecting the " Don to the Lake" is a misnomer. All that is happening here is that it is being diverted from the Keating Channel to the Shipping Channel and the Polson Slip. The river will still dump its detritus into Toronto Inner harbour. To connect the Don to the lake its route would have to be connected to the Outer Harbour. Certainly there will never again be a 'river delta' that was filled in a hundred years ago to create all of the industrial lands that are still there along Commissioners and Unwin Ave.
@GGoAwayy
@GGoAwayy 3 ай бұрын
🙄
@redeye1773
@redeye1773 3 ай бұрын
the wash out flood will be awsome what a failure
@MikeySlou
@MikeySlou 3 ай бұрын
Hurry up with this. Everything here takes decades.
@christopherblack4520
@christopherblack4520 3 ай бұрын
The Don river smells like a sewer.
@lvjuventus
@lvjuventus 3 ай бұрын
I'm sure that a cost benefit analysis was done to justify the $1.35 billion tag (to listen to politicians how strapped the coffers are, who knew Toronto could raise such capital...) but for the taxpayers of Toronto, let's say those in Agincourt or Long Branch or Willowdale, what exactly is the benefit in layman's terms of this expenditure?
@lawoftheuniverse8089
@lawoftheuniverse8089 2 ай бұрын
Makes me effing barf to see the ZILLIONS that the City Spends to give the Downtown Condo People an incredibly gorgeous Back Yard to play in while I live across from a Park with who knows how many homeless and Scarborough is stuck riding buses in ever increasing squalor but ya Gotta Look after those Downtown Condo Denizens cuz they are far better than anyone else in this warping city...
@tomrogers9467
@tomrogers9467 3 ай бұрын
Meanwhile the ten year billions over budget Eglinton Crosstown LRT coasts back and forth, and hasn’t carried a SINGLE Paying Passenger. And won’t ever this year! Oh, Look! Goldfish!
@andrelapointe1983
@andrelapointe1983 3 ай бұрын
...extravagant capital project that has little benefit for taxpayers, was all done on borrowed money: finding new ways to spend money we could not afford, for the so called "greater good of humanity!" tale.
@brootham9979
@brootham9979 3 ай бұрын
They forgot to mention how this should manage flooding in the future.
@pbilk
@pbilk 2 ай бұрын
​@@brootham9979 the video briefly mentioned that.
@benargee
@benargee 2 ай бұрын
The Don draining into Keating channel wasn't sufficient for excess storm water so this has been built to allow for more flow. It was a bottleneck. With climate change more extreme weather is expected. Proper drainage of storm water ensures less water damage which ultimately saves money in the long term. It's an essential infrastructure improvement. That benefits the surrounding area including commuters since road closures are less likely. We already had a bad Flooding incident this summer. Many big cities already have storm water management systems like this.
@ivoviejito
@ivoviejito 3 ай бұрын
A beautiful new bridge with only one lane each way. Yep, The West Plug for sure. 🤦‍♂️
@pbilk
@pbilk 2 ай бұрын
More lanes doesn't always mean more efficiency. There will be bike paths and a future tram that will connect the new residents. Having multiple modes of travel keeps automobile traffic flowing better.
@ivoviejito
@ivoviejito 2 ай бұрын
@pbilk @pbilk Yeah. It sure does.😂 Especially in winter. BTW: It's spelled "efficiency", genius.
@pbilk
@pbilk 2 ай бұрын
@@ivoviejito there, I added the "c". Sorry, "efficiency" was the last word before I hit enter and autocorrect got the best of me. I don't see how an extra lane is especially useful in the winter. It's another lane that you need a plow and salt and that costs more money. If anything an extra lane in the winter may encourage faster speeds on a potentially slippery bridge.
@NathanRanger-r9x
@NathanRanger-r9x 3 ай бұрын
Wow how disappointing. I’m Canadian and can see fellow Canadians struggling with low cost housing . That is a ridiculous way to spend taxpayer dollars when people are struggling, the government should be ashamed of itself. Boo
@ronsmith4325
@ronsmith4325 2 ай бұрын
Government doesn't give two craps about you or me... Only how to fill its pockets with more of everyone's money
@YogZab
@YogZab 2 ай бұрын
It's not ridiculous. It cleans up a filthy river, creates flood barricades, and reclaims lots of land which was previously wasteland full of soul killing industrial buildings and parking lots. This is a fraction of what good it's doing! ✌️
@NathanRanger-r9x
@NathanRanger-r9x 2 ай бұрын
@@YogZab so the root of the problem is what others did in the first place by building there and polluting the river and now the tax payers of Canada have to pay for it while there is homeless starving people out there is so ridiculous. You clearly sound like a privileged individual to think in such a manner and should be ashamed. That money could have helped a lot better in so many different ways!
@boldontarian
@boldontarian 2 ай бұрын
​@@NathanRanger-r9x The primary purpose for the river rehabilitation is flood protection. The 90 degree bend in the don river at the Keating channel meant that whenever there was heavy rain, the Don floodplain would fill, disrupting economic activity and destroying people's basements. Housing is best addressed not with more money, but with less immigration putting upward pressure on rent.
@pbilk
@pbilk 2 ай бұрын
This protects properties from flooding so that's a huge positive.
@amazingamx1255
@amazingamx1255 3 ай бұрын
Waste of resources
@wolfcrisp7606
@wolfcrisp7606 2 ай бұрын
Instead of doing what?
@amazingamx1255
@amazingamx1255 2 ай бұрын
@ deporting Indians
@TheSeptemberRose
@TheSeptemberRose 2 ай бұрын
Who ever edited this video needs to go back to school. The audio is unbearable.
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