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!
@GGoAwayy3 ай бұрын
Don's Don Crew?
@ash_iwn953 ай бұрын
Best publicworks project in Toronto hands down
@johnandrews35683 ай бұрын
This is super exciting to see an industrial wasteland turned to parkland. Chapeau!
@dougtheslug64353 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.
@riseofazrael3 ай бұрын
It's nice to see dilapidated land being turned into something beautiful. This is a wonderful project.
@GWNorth-db8vn2 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.
@DavidTurner113 ай бұрын
Don workin' on the Don!
@dam-q9l3 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.❤
@bruceh923 ай бұрын
Gratz ?
@terrygelinas45933 ай бұрын
Brilliant. Well explained!
@alexismantell4473 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_xplorer3122 ай бұрын
Congrats nice work
@JT-xq6eq2 ай бұрын
This is SO COOL.
@user-cm5tv3qg8o3 ай бұрын
Incredible project for the entire country!
@PMofKhanadah3 ай бұрын
How. The entire country doesn't live in toronto.
@GGoAwayy3 ай бұрын
How do they clean up all the concrete rubble from the busted up wall that will be on the riverbed?
@WaterfrontToronto3 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.
@evelynsaungikar94493 ай бұрын
Add them to Tommy Thompson park!
@pbilk2 ай бұрын
@@WaterfrontToronto Good to know, I was curious too. Thanks!
@lawoftheuniverse80892 ай бұрын
They will get some minimum waged kids to pull it out then ship it to Scarborough
@muchss3 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.
@YogZab2 ай бұрын
While every word you say is true, it is and has been for decades or centuries a very urban environment. ✌️
@forbeshutton54873 ай бұрын
And what was the total cost of the project?
@WaterfrontToronto3 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/
@Mwoo923 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?
@martybarons7613 ай бұрын
The water north of the north plug has more sediment, so it's darker.
@WaterfrontToronto3 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.
@tomrogers94673 ай бұрын
Because the water in the Don River is mostly sewage overflow and industrial waste.
@Wilem352 ай бұрын
So its already connected?
@Frandolphus3 ай бұрын
Will here be some sort of filtration system for the Don water, before it flows into the lake?
@WaterfrontToronto3 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.
@geoffreylee51993 ай бұрын
The old turning basin was way too small!
@ym21732 ай бұрын
Sorry, his name is Don?
@WaterfrontToronto2 ай бұрын
Yes, his name is really Don. Working on the Don.
@MH_Bikes3 ай бұрын
Finally, the old right hand 90° turn was far too industrial.
@bruceh923 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.
@WaterfrontToronto2 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/
@paulpeachey22123 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.
@GGoAwayy3 ай бұрын
🙄
@redeye17733 ай бұрын
the wash out flood will be awsome what a failure
@MikeySlou3 ай бұрын
Hurry up with this. Everything here takes decades.
@christopherblack45203 ай бұрын
The Don river smells like a sewer.
@lvjuventus3 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?
@lawoftheuniverse80892 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...
@tomrogers94673 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!
@andrelapointe19833 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.
@brootham99793 ай бұрын
They forgot to mention how this should manage flooding in the future.
@pbilk2 ай бұрын
@@brootham9979 the video briefly mentioned that.
@benargee2 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.
@ivoviejito3 ай бұрын
A beautiful new bridge with only one lane each way. Yep, The West Plug for sure. 🤦♂️
@pbilk2 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.
@ivoviejito2 ай бұрын
@pbilk @pbilk Yeah. It sure does.😂 Especially in winter. BTW: It's spelled "efficiency", genius.
@pbilk2 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-r9x3 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
@ronsmith43252 ай бұрын
Government doesn't give two craps about you or me... Only how to fill its pockets with more of everyone's money
@YogZab2 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-r9x2 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!
@boldontarian2 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.
@pbilk2 ай бұрын
This protects properties from flooding so that's a huge positive.
@amazingamx12553 ай бұрын
Waste of resources
@wolfcrisp76062 ай бұрын
Instead of doing what?
@amazingamx12552 ай бұрын
@ deporting Indians
@TheSeptemberRose2 ай бұрын
Who ever edited this video needs to go back to school. The audio is unbearable.