Over the last several days, Waterfront Toronto has been gradually filling the new mouth of the Don River with water, pumping it in at the Lake Ontario end of the new channel. In the first of two images, this one taken on February 1 by UrbanToronto Forum contributor skycandy, water is slowly approaching the new Commissioners Street Bridge from the west, as it rounds the curve towards the current mouth of the river at the Keating Channel. Dominating the photo are varying stone treatments for the new river bottom and its banks, with sections designed to both weather surges from storm events and to provide habitat for water dwellers, both plants and animals.

Water begins to fill the new mouth of the Don River in Toronto's Port Lands, image by UrbanToronto Forum contributor skycandy

One day later, skycandy returned to the scene, and this time shot south from the middle of the double-span bridge, with the water now reaching the banks of the small island the bridge's middle pier rises from. Beyond the westward curve you can see another flooded area gleaming in the distance; this is an area dubbed the Don Greenway, another wetland with parkland around it. In an extreme water event the Don will able to wash over the bank between the main outlet and the Greenway, providing another way for overflow to enter Lake Ontario, but normally the river and the greenway wetland will provide distinct habitats for plants and animals to thrive in.

Water fills more of the new mouth of the Don River in Toronto's Port Lands, image by UrbanToronto Forum contributor skycandy

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