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WDL - Project History and Current Status

History of Work & Activities

  • Click here to view photos from June 2009. NEW!
  • Click here to view Flood Protection Landform (FPL) construction photos from December 2008.
  • Spring 2008 - Construction of the  FPL currently underway

WDL Berm Construction 2

  • Installation of lower level interceptor (large trunk sewer line) underway as of Winter 2007.

WDL Berm Construction - Nov 2007

  • Realignment and reconstruction of Bayview Avenue and River Street (895 metres of road including underlying surfaces).
  • Throughout 2007, work focussed on site deconstruction and soil remediation.
  • On June 25, 2007 Federal Environment Minister John Baird, Ontario Minister of Public Infrastructure Renewal David Caplan and Toronto Mayor David Miller launched the start of construction of the flood protection landform (berm) and Don River Park.

     WDL Groundbreaking Ceremony - Caplan, Baird, Miller

    Tri-governmental Groundbreaking 
    Announcement/Update - June 25, 2007
    from left: Hon. David Caplan - Minister of Public
    Infrastructure Renewal; Hon. John Baird - Minister
    of the Environment; Toronto Mayor David Miller
  • In October 2006, Minister of PIR signs funding agreement with ORC for flood protection, environmental and tenant management work to implement MOU.

 

 
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