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Author : Dekker, T.J.; Lautenbach, D.; Peterson, G.W.; and Silver, E.
Date : 2008.
Title : Integrating hydrology, ecology, and river geomorphology into urban landscape design: The Lower Don Lands Naturalization Project
Publication : 51st Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research. International Association for Great Lakes Research 2008. May 19-23, 2008. Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario.
Issue : Book of Abstracts.
Page(s) : 33-34.
Abstract
The Lower Don Lands Area of Toronto is located at the intersection of three emerging Toronto neighborhoods: the West Don Lands, East Bayfront, and the Port Lands area. This intersection of neighborhoods contains the mouth of the lower Don River, a channelized and constrained river mouth surrounded by transportation corridors and other aging urban infrastructure. In recent years, the public demand for restoration of the river mouth area has greatly increased, while the emerging neighborhoods have created a need to find a dynamic balance between the surrounding urban environment and the hydrologic and ecologic requirements of the river mouth. An international design competition to develop a plan for resolving these competing needs was held in 2007. This talk describes how the winning design was developed as a highly multidisciplinary creative effort supported by a strong technical understanding of local hydrology, local freshwater estuarine ecology, and hydrologic and ecological interactions with Lake Ontario. The result is a proposed winding river mouth with natural meanders, wetland margins, wildlife habitat, and recreational opportunities. The plan also retains and enhances the function of the lower Don as a floodway, providing sufficient floodwater conveyance capacity to convey the most extreme regulatory flood event.
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