{"id":186,"date":"2011-08-23T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/torontos-water-treatment-park\/"},"modified":"2023-01-13T10:19:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T15:19:33","slug":"torontos-water-treatment-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/torontos-water-treatment-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto’s Water Treatment Park"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image: WATERFRONToronto<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Think you know what a water treatment plant looks like? Sherbourne Common<\/a>, a nearly completed treatment plant on Toronto’s waterfront, is housed beneath a public park featuring dramatic concrete and light sculptures, an ice-skating rink, water channels and nearly 200 new trees. A blog post from the Dirt<\/a> puts it best:<\/p>\n

“In a marvel of thoughtful design and engineering, the new 3.6-acre, $30 million park commissioned by Waterfront Toronto and designed by a team led by landscape architecture firm Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg uses ultraviolet light to clean polluted water coming in from Lake Ontario. Given not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) obstacles in cities are only expected to persist in the near term, these types of hybrid park-infrastructure projects make great sense, particularly given few communities can afford to build expensive, single-use ‘dumb’ infrastructure. Many communities may jump at the chance for a beautiful park that does so much more. IMBY please?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out an extensive image gallery<\/a> of renderings and actual photos of Sherbourne Common; a picture of one of the sites’ water channels and bioinfiltration beds after the jump.<\/p>\n

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Photo: WATERFRONToronto<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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