Storm Water Management - Stream Naturalization

[tomh009]

Indeed, something like the Shoemaker Creek naturalization simply won't fit, so my assumption was that they would work within the limits of the current creek/trail real estate.

Have they actually approved a plan to purchase and demolish properties? Or it's just a staff proposal for now?

I don't think it's a staff proposal, I think it's just ac3rs proposal.

I very much doubt they would do something like that. Naturalization would be a big challenge in that area because of the constraints--naturalized culverts always take more space. I don't know enough the topic though, to know if it's possible to naturalize the creek intermittently.

Reading the city's stormwater management plans, it doesn't look like Upper Schneider Creek (roughly from Victoria Park to Ottawa St) naturalization is in the short-term plans, although they do plan to make some improvements to the water quality. In some ways this one is not so bad from an enjoyment perspective as there are lots of big trees on both sides and vegetation reaches at least halfway down the concrete slope. In terms of absorbing floodwaters, though, those trees really don't help at all.