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If you've been wondering what the City of Toronto might do with all that rock and soil that will be removed during construction of the Eglinton crosstown LRT, here is one possibility courtesy of Toronto Water: A proposal has been made to build a series of man-made islands extending from the mouth of the Humber River. A kind of Leslie Street Spit West, the land would extend about one kilometre from Sunnyside Beach.
Officials often come to city council to propose new bylaws, garbage fees or tree-planting programs. It is not every day that one of them suggests creating an archipelago. That was what Lou Di Gironimo did this month when he presented a clever plan to build a series of small islands off the mouth of the Humber River on the western waterfront.
The string of islands would go in at the mouth of the Humber River and extend about one kilometre from shore. The plan would take clean fill from construction jobs to build a solid earth barrier underwater that would deflect polluted Humber River water out into the lake and away from Sunnyside Beach.
The city's water department proposed building the archipelago to deflect Humber River water away from Sunnyside Beach to make it consistently safe for swimming. It would require up to 2 million cubic metres of soil. A staff report suggested Eglinton Crosstown could supply 800,000 cubic metres.
Officials often come to city council to propose new bylaws, garbage fees or tree-planting programs. It is not every day that one of them suggests creating an archipelago. That was what Lou Di Gironimo did this month when he presented a clever plan to build a series of small islands off the mouth of the Humber River on the western waterfront.
The string of islands would go in at the mouth of the Humber River and extend about one kilometre from shore. The plan would take clean fill from construction jobs to build a solid earth barrier underwater that would deflect polluted Humber River water out into the lake and away from Sunnyside Beach.
The city's water department proposed building the archipelago to deflect Humber River water away from Sunnyside Beach to make it consistently safe for swimming. It would require up to 2 million cubic metres of soil. A staff report suggested Eglinton Crosstown could supply 800,000 cubic metres.
