Daylighting Sawmill River - Page 8

JET · #**141** Posted **Jun 24, 2016, 12:20 PM**

Now this is interesting, there is a possible plan to realign Alderney drive at the Portland/Prince Albert intersection, something about Mill Lane.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-s...outh-1.3650429

Keith P. · #**142** Posted **Jun 24, 2016, 1:07 PM**

^^^ As predicted, the tax dollars continue to get flushed down the drain for this ridiculous boondoggle.

IanWatson · #**143** Posted **Jun 24, 2016, 3:00 PM**

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^^^ As predicted, the tax dollars continue to get flushed down the drain for this ridiculous boondoggle.

Damn that city, spending money on civic infrastructure.

Keith P. · #**144** Posted **Jun 24, 2016, 3:08 PM**

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Damn that city, spending money on civic infrastructure.

You left out the words "unnecessarily expensive" in front of civic infrastructure. Now they are going to realign streets for this thing? Why don't we just have a big bonfire fueled with $10 and $20 bills?

OldDartmouthMark · #**145** Posted **Jun 24, 2016, 3:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by Keith P.

You left out the words "unnecessarily expensive" in front of civic infrastructure. Now they are going to realign streets for this thing? Why don't we just have a big bonfire fueled with $10 and $20 bills?

Read the article again. They are considering realigning the streets to fix a traffic problem, which opens up the possibility of daylighting part of the waterway.

Never thought I'd read you complaining about fixing a traffic problem!

Keith P. · #**146** Posted **Jun 24, 2016, 4:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark

Read the article again. They are considering realigning the streets to fix a traffic problem, which opens up the possibility of daylighting part of the waterway.

Never thought I'd read you complaining about fixing a traffic problem!

There is never much traffic there. This smells suspiciously like HRM once again bowing to the EAC and spending millions on one of their pet projects.

JET · #**147** Posted **Aug 8, 2016, 5:36 PM**

http://thechronicleherald.ca/metro/1...th-flume-house

Colin May · #**148** Posted **Aug 17, 2016, 7:58 PM**

Feds and province to spend $6.3 million on Sullivan's Pond sewer renewal. Project to start 12 days before municipal election,
There is also money for projects that have already commenced.

The Conductor · #**149** Posted **Sep 22, 2016, 3:25 PM**

Interesting idea - not sure what the holdup would be. They have been daylighting rivers and streams in the Ottawa/Gatineau area forever. Seems to me that if you examine this through Google maps it would make for an interesting business case around increased eco-tourism (paddling from Bay of Fundy to Halifax), increased property values and increased retail shopping because of increased population numbers. You have to create a business case and far too many people involved in the environmental movement view commerce as evil which is part of the reason these projects never get off the ground, because they tackle them from the wrong perspective.

Dmajackson · #**150** Posted **Apr 23, 2017, 5:09 PM**

The upper portions of Sawmill Creek will be daylighted this summer. Phase I starts at Sullivan's Pond and continues downstream to south of the Lock 4 Conominium Building. Due to the narrow easement most of the stream will be housed in a three-sided box culvert.

Sawmill Creek Daylighting

OldDartmouthMark · #**151** Posted **Jan 10, 2018, 4:42 PM**

Some photos of the project were posted by jonovision in the General Updates and News thread:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...94#post8038594

Just thought I'd post it here to keep the info in one place for those interested in the project.

Personally, I think it looks better than I expected it to be and look forward to checking it out once it's finished, along with the restored inclined plane marine railway:
https://museum.novascotia.ca/event/d...-craftsmanship

• Video Link

This is a great thing for Dartmouth!

Jonovision · #**152** Posted **Feb 26, 2018, 9:42 PM**

This is coming together. Won't be long until all that is left is the new plantings in the spring.

20180224_174543 by Jonovision23, on Flickr

20180224_174134_HDR by Jonovision23, on Flickr

20180224_173750 by Jonovision23, on Flickr

20180224_173707 by Jonovision23, on Flickr

IanWatson · #**153** Posted **Feb 27, 2018, 12:33 PM**

It's so nice walking by and hearing the sound of rushing water. I can't wait to walk across the bridge. I'm very happy with how this project turned out.

OldDartmouthMark · #**154** Posted **May 18, 2018, 5:23 PM**

Stephen Archibald has a new blog entry regarding the Sawmill River daylighting project. Link below:

https://halifaxbloggers.ca/noticedin...sawmill-river/

Keith P. · #**155** Posted **May 18, 2018, 5:58 PM**

Given the grade change there, I wonder if the original pre-1971 river was actually a rapids?

Franco401 · #**156** Posted **May 18, 2018, 8:08 PM**

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Given the grade change there, I wonder if the original pre-1971 river was actually a rapids?

It was navigable, so it probably had locks which were then removed.

TheNovaScotian · #**157** Posted **May 18, 2018, 11:26 PM**

It was a marine railway that definitely had some white water.

Keith P. · #**158** Posted **May 19, 2018, 12:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by IanWatson

It's so nice walking by and hearing the sound of rushing water. I can't wait to walk across the bridge. I'm very happy with how this project turned out.

I don't understand the need for the bridge other than for eye candy. It is literally 10 feet to one side of dry land.

terrynorthend · #**159** Posted **May 19, 2018, 4:29 PM**

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I don't understand the need for the bridge other than for eye candy. It is literally 10 feet to one side of dry land.

I noticed that too. Pretty but superfluous.

Jonovision · #**160** Posted **May 19, 2018, 6:59 PM**

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I don't understand the need for the bridge other than for eye candy. It is literally 10 feet to one side of dry land.

It had to do with lining up the trans canada trail with the existing pedestrian crossing and keeping it relatively navigable for both pedestrians and cyclists.