The Don River's course into Lake Ontario will soon be redirected through a new human-made river mouth, marking perhaps the most significant milestone…
, marking perhaps the most significant milestone to date in what will prove the defining feature of Toronto's monumental $1.3 billion Port Lands Flood Protection Project .
Don Forbes, project director at Waterfront Toronto, calls the river "one of the biggest civil works projects in North America," boasting, "there's never been anything like this. It's massive."He acknowledges that there are "lots of other flood protection projects around the world, some even involving rivers.
"When we filled the river, we left a cutoff wall at either end, which allowed us to fill it in a controlled way. We call these walls the 'plugs': the north plug, where the Don River will eventually flow into the new river valley, the west plug, where the new river will meet Lake Ontario, and the south plug, which will connect one of the wetlands to the ship channel."
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