Environment committee  They want more sidewalks and more curb and gutter, which is in the wrong direction. The other thing that I need to highlight is that the area of stormwater management has continued to evolve over time. Currently in these new subdivisions, not only do you typically have a stormwa

Environment committee  To be honest with you, one of the biggest challenges that we have is the reverse. It's the interest of residents, particularly if they're in ditched roads and it doesn't happen everywhere, but in many cases they consider those drainage systems to be substandard, rural. In many ca

Environment committee  Maybe just as a point of reference, I need to acknowledge the work that we do with the conservation authority to get back to the wetland area, and I apologize for that. But also critically important to your question and the fact that when we're looking to develop greenfield, I'll

Environment committee  Again, so far as the greenfield development outside of the city of Toronto, it's pretty much standard practice in terms of meeting these very stringent requirements. For flow control, for erosion control, as well as water quality, you have to provide a stormwater pond within a la

Environment committee  To perhaps build on David's point, we hosted through the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative a couple of very focused workshops that I recall quite vividly to your point. One was dealing with combines or overflows and it was best practices of municipalities within the

Environment committee  Again, Chair, I am not aware of such a use either.

Environment committee  Certainly when you speak to our residents, particularly those who have had sewage in their basements repeatedly over the last decade or so, there is no such thing as a one-in-100-year event. It's unprecedented the level of control that the approach that Toronto has taken. I ha

Environment committee  To some extent. I'll throw a few other numbers to you. That system that I described would capture most of the flow from our combined sewer system that we would expect in an average year and provide for a spillage of one to two overflows. It wouldn't capture all of the runoff that

Environment committee  Perhaps to provide a bit of context, it's not unique to Toronto. We've experienced a number of extreme weather events over the last number of years. In Toronto, the history goes back to about the mid-1980s. In August of 2005, we had the biggest storm since our regional storm, Hur

Environment committee  As I said—one of the cornerstones in terms of David's point—the impaired beneficial use that most affected Toronto was our waterfront beaches. We pride ourselves as being the largest city in the country and having 11 beaches across our waterfront. Arguably, the wet weather flows,

Environment committee  Just to qualify, on this one pond that I did make reference to, we were fortunate to have funding. The other 170 some-odd projects are in various stages of planning, design, and construction. Admittedly, we will be making funding applications if these projects conform to the crit

Environment committee  Absolutely. As I noted, we are quite excited about this high-rate treatment facility that we would like to construct as soon as the first leg of our tunnel system is constructed. We have been working with our colleagues, scientists, and engineers at Environment Canada for over a

Environment committee  The funding applications are certainly made by the city, as you can appreciate, with the needs of the city being multi-faceted. It really is, in many cases, a political decision in terms of which funding source they approach. I know that transit has been priority one for the last

Environment committee  My short answer is no, I do not. I think, as I said, for Toronto, our signature project is the one that I mentioned, the Don and central waterfront project. As it stands right now, we have forecast a 25-year implementation period if the project were solely funded through Toronto

Environment committee  It was the precursor to the project I just mentioned. We have to complete an Ontario environmental assessment process, and that contribution, which we welcomed with open arms, assisted us in getting that project through that front end, the planning. We're now in the process of a