This page is provided to guide our members and site visitors to recent activities and postings on the website.

Recent news or website additions:

September 24: Prior to the approval of the new Don Plan by the board of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, the TMP submits some final concerns and recommendations. Click here to see our comments.

May 31, 2009: The TMP releases the final version of Reach by Reach, our regeneration plan for the Creek. Click here to see the document.

April 3, 2009: The TMP releases recommendations for a Warden Woods concept site and the creation of the Friends of Warden Woods, with significant support from four partners – LEAF, RiverSides, Lost Rivers, and the Clairlea Regent Park Neighbourhood Association, at a meeting on the new Don plan. Click here to see the document.

February 7, 2009: A fabulous article on the TMP by freelance author Harry van Bommel appears in the January/February edition of Canadian Water Treatment. The inclusion of this article reflects the continuing effort of society as a whole, and resource professionals in particular, to address broad perspectives of sustainability and social engagement in their endeavours. You can access the article and the rest of the magazine via http://watertreatment.ca/from-the-ground-up/.

November 26: The TMP releases Reach by Reach, a 49-page report that provides both strategic recommendations to four levels of government and details on regenerating the Taylor Massey sub-watershed, to the fullest extent possible, suggesting that $4,275,000 be spent on the top five priorities over 5 years. The draft document was deleted following the posting of the final version. See May 31 above.

July 25, 2008: See the TMP’s Power-Point Submission to the Board of the TRCA, resulting in a motion that the Authority seek reach-by-reach funding from senior levels of government to support watershed plan implementation. See Submissions to Local Agencies.

June 16, 2008: The TMP makes significant comments on the proposed new Don Watershed Plan. See Submissions to Local Agencies.

April 17, 2008: The TMP provides a series of comments on the proposed new Don River Fisheries Management Plan. See Submissions to Local Agencies.

March 30, 2008: The TMP releases Protecting Warden Woods, the first in a series of 2008 publications on strategic issues.

March 18, 2008: The Board announces that the TMP will have a slightly reduced calendar of events this spring, followed by a greatly reduced series of events for the rest of the year, as we focus on:

• Water Quality, including:
  • e-coli levels in the Creek and progress under the City’s storm water outfall monitoring program; and,
  • broader water quality issues with the City, province and the federal government involving water quality standards and the preparation of a Water Quality Index for the Creek, and;
    
• Watershed Management, including a series of submissions to both the City and the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority to protect and enhance key aspects of the watershed. These submissions will address both the City’s natural heritage and parks management programs and its Wet Weather Flow Master Plan, as well as the new Don River Watershed Plan being developed by the Conservation Authority. Submission topics will include:
  • Protecting Warden Woods;
  • Securing the Warden Hydro Corridor as Greenspace; and,
  • Shifting the City of Toronto toward Watershed Management

March, 2008: The TMP releases details on its public spring events. Please go to the Calendar.

February 13, 2008: The TMP makes a submission regarding the City of Toronto’s proposal on increased Environmental Reporting and Disclosure. Please go to submissions.

December 31, 2007: The TMP makes two suggestions to federal Environment Minister Baird to improve Canada’s new Water Quality Index: that there be more rivers included and that the more heavily polluted rivers have multiple sampling locations. See Submissions to Local Agencies.