Leslie Street Spit

[Razz]

June 27, 2020

Nearing completion of the City Park Pavilion building just inside the main entrance to TTP at the foot of Leslie Street.

Public washrooms

 

[3Dementia]

Stunning snaps Razz (am Dazz-led). Thanks!

 

[Razz]

CANADA DAY 2020

 

[Towered]

Does anyone know what this platform is for?

 

[Razz]

No idea, but I have wondered about that myself. My guess is it has something to do with WAVE, the deep water cooling infrastructure that heats and cools many of the downtown bank towers. I'd like to know as well...

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Is it looking east from the spit? If so - it's the Ashridges Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant new outfall:

The wastewater treatment plant outfall is the point at which the effluent (the fully treated wastewater) is discharged back into Lake Ontario.
A new outfall is being built to improve capacity and better convey the effluent from the Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant (ABTP) into Lake Ontario.
The outfall includes:

• a 14 m diameter shaft, approximately 85 m deep
• a 3.5 km long, 7 m diameter tunnel, mined through rock beneath the lakebed
• 50 risers to disperse treated and disinfected effluent into Lake Ontario

Tunnelling operations will be supported from an onshore shaft.
The risers will be drilled from in-water barges.
Timing and Budget
Construction will span 2018 to 2024.
View construction notification for all current projects.

Don River and Central Waterfront Wet Weather Flow System & Connected Projects - Project List

www.toronto.ca

More info: https://canada.constructconnect.com...tion-planned-for-ashbridges-bay-plant-outfall

Ashbridge’s Bay wastewater treatment plant to be staging area for $400-million sewage and stormwater overflow tunnel

It’s the first stage of a 25-year project to stop the combined overflow going into the lake.

www.thestar.com

Barge and crane in Lake Ontario doing work on Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant outfall tunnel – Beach Metro Community News

By AMANDA GIBB A barge and crane can be seen in Lake Ontario from the shores of Woodbine Beach, as part of a new outfall tunnel construction for Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant. The construction including onshore and offshore work, and is expected to be completed by December 2023. Susan Pape, the...

www.beachmetro.com

AoD

 

[Razz]

^ That seems to make a lot of sense. I would say the derrick is south east.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

^ That seems to make a lot of sense. I would say the derrick is south east.

Map:

https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/96c8-ecs-info-w14-ashbridgesbay-outfall-cons-jan10-18.pdf

AoD

 

[DSC]

Map:

https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/96c8-ecs-info-w14-ashbridgesbay-outfall-cons-jan10-18.pdf

AoD

See also related work ON the Spit noted on last page (Post 75) https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/leslie-street-spit.15550/page-5

 

[Towered]

Map:

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https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/96c8-ecs-info-w14-ashbridgesbay-outfall-cons-jan10-18.pdf

AoD

Thanks, that must be what it's for. Fascinating.

Is landfill still being added to the spit in general?

 

[kotsy]

Cool documentary on "The Spit"

 

[Northern Light]

* cross post from another, older Spit thread, as I couldn't find this one for some reason* Thanks to @AlvinofDiaspar for finding this.

Anyways.......DTAH posted pics on Twitter of the new pavillion:

Close up of the "unique chiseled exposed aggregate finish concrete walls"

Close up of the "unique chiseled exposed aggregate finish concrete walls"

 

[interchange42]

Is landfill still being added to the spit in general?

from https://www.portstoronto.com/port-of-toronto/harbour-maintenance/leslie-street-spit.aspx

"With the completion of (the Wetland Creation Project) Cell 2 capping, the TRCA is no longer accepting fill (e.g. concrete, bricks or blocks) at the Leslie Street Spit.

The final cell, Cell 3, continues to be used for dredged materials, with approximately 30 to 40 years of capacity remaining."

42

 

[janschot]

This concrete looks amazing! I wonder who the contractor was doing the concrete work? Hard to get good concrete work in my experience...

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Close up of the "unique chiseled exposed aggregate finish concrete walls"

 

[achender]

Snapped a quick picture as I walked by today.