Friday, April 18, 2025
Port Lands Flood Protection Project Breaks Ground
Yesterday, excavation commenced on a new river valley as part of the Port Lands Flood Protection project on Toronto’s waterfront. The project was designed to…
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DTAH Selected as Part of Port Lands Design Team
DTAH announced that the company has been selected as part of a collaborative team to design and implement the infrastructure and integrated public realm that…
Ontario Land Transfer Nearly Completes Rouge National Urban Park
The establishment of North America’s largest urban park has taken a huge leap forward now that the Ontario government has transferred and released its interest in 22.8 square kilometres of lands…
Toronto Appoints New Chief Resilience Officer
The City of Toronto has appointed Elliott Cappell as chief resilience officer (CRO), a new position created to lead city-wide resilience-building efforts to help Toronto…
Experimenting With Green Laneways in Toronto
The City of Toronto has more than 2,400 publicly owned laneways. These back alleys, that run throughout the city, behind our streets, connecting our residential…
York Region Pollution Control Plant Wins U.S. Award
The American Public Works Association will recognize upgrades to the Keswick Water Pollution Control plant in the Region of York as one of its 2014…
Unsafe Amounts of Lead in 13 Per Cent of Toronto Homes: Toronto Star
The Toronto Star has reported that tap water in 13 per cent of Toronto homes tested over the last six years contain an unsafe amount…
Ontario Named an International Water Industry Leader
According to WaterTAP Ontario, Canada’s most populous province has awarded more water industry patents in the past 30 years than any other comparable government jurisdiction…
Pond, Tunnel and Pipe
It wasn’t a happy day back in 1987 when the International Joint Commission (IJC) listed Toronto’s waterfront as one of 43 Areas of Concern in…
Youth4Water
As part of our Canada Water Week series, we met with Toronto’s Youth4Water organization to ask members what they’re doing to celebrate Canada Water…
Friend and Foe
Urban roads and expansive highways propel our interconnected economy and mobile lifestyle, but a snowstorm can bring productivity crashing to a halt. Not to mention,…
Wasted Energy
Across the country, provinces are updating Building Code standards—or implementing policies that would allow provincial ministries to change standards. Canada’s new building code, coming in…
Toronto-Area Rivers High in PCBs: Study
A University of Toronto study of the concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other chemicals in the rivers running into Lake Ontario reveals significantly higher…
Toronto Launches Water Meter Program
The City of Toronto officially kicked off its Water Meter Program yesterday with the installation of the first automated water meter in a residential home…
Toronto Chooses Neptune for AMR Contract
Hot on the heels of Monday’s smart metering report from Oracle, the City of Toronto announced on Wednesday that it has selected Neptune Technology Group…
RVA Awarded Toronto Watermain Replacement Contract
The City of Toronto has retained R.V. Anderson Associates Limited (RVA) to provide program management, design, inspection, and contract administration services during construction for a…
Comstock Awarded Humber Plant Upgrades
Comstock Canada, a subsidiary of EMCOR Group, Inc., has received a contract from the City of Toronto for a de-chlorination upgrade project at the Humber…
Toronto Taps the Sun for Hot Water
Residents of Toronto’s Ward 30 (Toronto-Danforth) will be leading the way in using the sun for home water heating in a new program announced yesterday.…
FCM Encourages Reduced Bottled Water Use
The Federal of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) is encouraging local governments to reduce the use of bottled water in their own facilities where other options are…
Waterworld!
Flooding in the GTA leads to overflows at the banks of the Humber River as snow melts and warnings from the Toronto and Region Conservation…
ENPAR Nitrate Treatment Technology to Hit Europe
ENPAR Technologies Inc. has announced that it has been granted a European Patent for the electrochemical treatment of water contaminated with nitrogenous compounds including nitrate.…
Toronto Council Approves Bottle Ban
Toronto Council has voted to ban the sale of water in plastic bottles at City Hall and civic centres. This new policy (and two other…
Groups Challenge Nestlé’s Bottled Water “Greenwashing”
As Toronto City Council gathered yesterday to consider passing a city-wide ban on bottled water, a new coalition challenged advertising claims made by Nestlé Waters…
Toronto Boosts Water Rates
The City of Toronto might boost water rates by nine per cent on January 1, the fourth straight year of nine per cent-plus fee hikes,…