(03-29-2023, 09:22 AM)panamaniac Wrote:

(03-28-2023, 09:44 PM)Acitta Wrote: Schneider and Shoemaker Creek Naturalization Environmental Assessment

The Schneider and Shoemaker creeks are currently lined with concrete where the rivers meet. During heavy rains, creeks spill over and flood areas around it, which creates a risk to public safety.
We will complete an Environmental Assessment (EA) to plan a workable design solution for this issue.
As part of the EA, we will consider environmental risks and find ways to avoid or reduce impacts. Widening and naturalizing the creek will provide greater public safety. It will also create region-wide environmental benefits.
This includes improving water quality in Schneider Creek and the Grand River downstream. The creek would also have better habitat for fish, amphibians, reptiles, and birds. The EA and any potential improvement works are a result of a culmination of previous studies in the area.
Disaster Mitigation Adaptation Fund
This initiative is funded in part by the Government of Canada. For more information about this partnership between the City of Kitchener and the Government of Canada through the Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund, visit kitchener.ca/Stormwater


[b]Upcoming p[/b][b]ublic information centre:[/b]
[b]April 13, 2023[/b]
[b]6:00pm – 8:00pm[/b].
[b]Rockway Golf C[/b][b]ourse (625 Rockway Drive, Kitchener, ON, N2G 3B5)[/b]

Ironic - they were lined with concrete after flooding in their natural state.

(03-29-2023, 09:22 AM)panamaniac Wrote:

(03-28-2023, 09:44 PM)Acitta Wrote: Schneider and Shoemaker Creek Naturalization Environmental Assessment

The Schneider and Shoemaker creeks are currently lined with concrete where the rivers meet. During heavy rains, creeks spill over and flood areas around it, which creates a risk to public safety.
We will complete an Environmental Assessment (EA) to plan a workable design solution for this issue.
As part of the EA, we will consider environmental risks and find ways to avoid or reduce impacts. Widening and naturalizing the creek will provide greater public safety. It will also create region-wide environmental benefits.
This includes improving water quality in Schneider Creek and the Grand River downstream. The creek would also have better habitat for fish, amphibians, reptiles, and birds. The EA and any potential improvement works are a result of a culmination of previous studies in the area.
Disaster Mitigation Adaptation Fund
This initiative is funded in part by the Government of Canada. For more information about this partnership between the City of Kitchener and the Government of Canada through the Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund, visit kitchener.ca/Stormwater


[b]Upcoming p[/b][b]ublic information centre:[/b]
[b]April 13, 2023[/b]
[b]6:00pm – 8:00pm[/b].
[b]Rockway Golf C[/b][b]ourse (625 Rockway Drive, Kitchener, ON, N2G 3B5)[/b]

Ironic - they were lined with concrete after flooding in their natural state.

(03-30-2023, 02:52 PM)Acitta Wrote:

(03-29-2023, 09:22 AM)panamaniac Wrote: Ironic - they were lined with concrete after flooding in their natural state.

I think that the understanding on how to naturalize a waterway in a way that avoids flooding has improved considerably. The part of Shoemaker Creek that was redeveloped last year is considerably wider than it was. The same goes for Montgomery Creek, that was also done last year.

(07-17-2023, 08:21 PM)Acitta Wrote: Some Kitchener residents worry naturalizing Schneider Creek and Shoemaker Creek could harm the neighbourhood

Kitchener city staff say Schneider Creek and Shoemaker Creek project will reduce flood risks

(07-18-2023, 03:44 AM)plam Wrote:

(07-17-2023, 08:21 PM)Acitta Wrote: Some Kitchener residents worry naturalizing Schneider Creek and Shoemaker Creek could harm the neighbourhood

Kitchener city staff say Schneider Creek and Shoemaker Creek project will reduce flood risks

The resident who got quoted didn't really seem to be in tune with expert opinion (and Chapman actually said reasonable things). Alas, expert opinion isn't always correct (highways!). How does one know?

(07-18-2023, 07:42 AM)panamaniac Wrote: The lack of information about what the work will/won't entail seems to be the real source of the problem, not naturalization per se.

(07-18-2023, 04:59 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:

(07-18-2023, 03:44 AM)plam Wrote: The resident who got quoted didn't really seem to be in tune with expert opinion (and Chapman actually said reasonable things). Alas, expert opinion isn't always correct (highways!). How does one know?

This is a HUGE problem.

(07-18-2023, 04:03 PM)cherrypark Wrote: I don't think a highway civil engineer's technical competency is necessarily any more in question than the stream naturalization environmental engineer's technical competency. I trust the bridges and curves of the 401 to be designed well, even if I think the macro decisions of whether they are the right mode and infrastructure to build is more open to interpretation. Same for the stream naturalization.

Seems worth having the distinction of expertise in the technical components than the planning and design components, not to mention that codes and aged practices vs. modern practices can make both experts, but the basis of best practice they are drawing from a space for debate.