Over the past four days, Waterfront Toronto has been very busy at the new mouth of the Don River, where it's been removing both vestiges of the formerly industrial shoreline, and "the plug," a berm that separated Lake Ontario from the newly dug riverbed. Each day this week we'll get a look at another aspect of the new waterway, and we are starting with this image by UrbanToronto Forum contributor skycandy of underwater cutting, or at least cutting in the splash zone with an arc welder, as a diver separates separates section of a steel shoreline wall from earlier days. With the land switching from port uses to park here just west of Cherry Street, a more naturally curving shoreline has already been formed, hidden from view to the right to the photo.

Sparks fly as steel sections are severed from an industrial shoreline wall, image by UrbanToronto Forum contributor skycandy

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