06-06-2015, 09:16 AM
(06-06-2015, 07:29 AM)Canard Wrote: Hmm, the pad next to Clay and Glass was newly-poured concrete, and had services sticking out of it... Didn't look like it was related to the little water tunnel. Could be wrong of course, and it is on a strange angle relative to the track alignment. You'd think if it was substation or track related, it'd be parallel to the tracks.
Here's what happened, in order:
- dug down to existing concrete box, including partway down around the sides
- chipped off top surface, making it rough
- installed lots of bits of bent rebar, apparently by drilling holes, putting the rebar in, and gluing
- poured concrete over the whole thing
It's definitely not the pad for a substation, and it’s in the right place to be the creek structure, which I recall reading required reinforcement. Go on the other side of the CCGG to see where it goes underground. The next place downstream you can get a clue to its location is on Erb St. just West of Caroline, where there is a whole line of storm sewer grates along the curb. I believe these dump directly into the creek structure below. Then as far as I know it passes diagonally under the former Seagram museum building and crosses Caroline St., currently through a big pit.
Incidentally, the existence of the creek is one reason why I was always amused to hear people talk about burying the LRT, or building a subway. In this context the costs of that would have been insanely astronomical.