Forks of the Don, yesterday

looking first up the East Don, "white bridge" in the distance (Taylor Creek just out of sight behind it), to the Lower Don, then to the West Don, foamy because of the weir, with bonus Garfield

#DonRiver #Toronto

Amazing!

#Toronto strangled the #DonRiver over a century ago into a concrete channel and buried the wetlands

Recently, Toronto tried restoring them

"When one of the bulldozers was halted by thick green shoots, the machine operator soon realized that the sedges and cattails looked nothing like the other weeds...

...something both unexpected and profound: seeds and plant scraps, trapped underground for more than a century, had roared back to life"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/09/toronto-waterfront-soil-plants-worms

#Canada #Ontario

I’m disappointed this morning to hear that the Don River has flooded Bayview Avenue again. I thought that opening the new mouth of the Don last year and the wetlands there was supposed to prevent that from happening.

On the other hand, I see that the flooding is up above Rosedale Valley road, rather than in the lower Don. So maybe the situation has improved, and they just need to do more work upstream?

#toronto #DonRiver #flooding