The City of Hamilton is recommencing the construction of one of the most controversial road projects in Ontario's history. The Red Hill Creek Expressway has been in various stages of planning, design and construction since the 1950's. Over 60% of this 20 km ring road is built and operating with the remaining 8 kms now underway after 10 years of political, fiscal, legal and aboriginal challenges. Among the many environmental improvements that have been made to the project in the last 6 years, is the stormwater management approach. The end result is a carefully designed and integrated stormwater management system that achieves the following objectives: treatment of runoff from all new pavement and existing contaminant sources; flood protection of the QEW and proposed Expressway; balance of flow and sediment regimes for realigned watercourse; and enhancement of remnant creek zones. For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD number E211395.
Samenvatting