Senior Management Team Visit to Ashbridges Bay Landform Project Site
September 27, 2022
TRCA’s Restoration and Infrastructure division today led a Senior Management Team visit to the Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant Landform Project site.
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The site tour offered an opportunity to showcase the progress and scale of the project firsthand, and to promote collaboration and learning.
Ashbridges Bay is a popular recreational destination. Coatsworth Cut, just east of the Ashbridges Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant, serves as an access route to Lake Ontario for several boat clubs, is home to a public boat launch, and offers sheltered water for sailing, kayaking, and canoeing.
The purpose of the Ashbridges Bay Landform Project is to address address erosion and sedimentation issues within Coatsworth Cut and Ashbridges Bay Park. The benefits will include:
- Creating a land base for the City of Toronto Wet Weather Flow Treatment Facility expansion
- Providing long-term shoreline erosion protection in the Ashbridges Bay and Tommy Thompson Park areas
- Construction of two breakwaters designed to minimize sediment accumulation in Coatsworth Cut, reducing risk to vessel navigation
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TRCA Restoration and Infrastructure completed the perimeter of the landform structure in June 2021, and has since been filling its three cells with shale material. Crews have also been working to install long-term protection to the landform, in the form of armourstone headlands and cobble beaches. Progress on two breakwater structures continues as well.
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Once all structural components of the project are complete, work will focus on habitat improvements. This is expected to start in early 2024. LEARN MORE.
The project is scheduled to be completed by December 2025.