Timeline: 2016 onwards
The eastern Mississauga waterfront is being rehabilitated by replacing the existing shoreline with a more natural, diverse and ecologically functional shoreline. Construction and habitat restoration activities include:
- Building three offshore islands to protect the shoreline from wave action and to create underwater habitat for a variety of aquatic wildlife.
- Building three coastal wetlands to provide important fish, wildlife and bird habitat.
- Planting trees and shrubs to grow a forest and planting flowers and grasses to grow a meadow
- Re-connecting Serson Creek to Lake Ontario and restore the buried creek to allow fish to access the creek from the lake.
2020 Update:
- Reused 1,208,880 cubic metres of fill
- Reused 254,320 cubic metres of construction rubble
- Planted 20,748 trees and shrubs
- Installed 42,850 wetland plants
- Placed 95,583 tonnes of quarry stone for shoreline revetment
- Completed 550 linear metres of new Serson & Applewood Creeks
- Completed two hectares of new meadow
- Completed six hectares of new forest
- Completed five hectares of new wetland
- Completed 1,390 metres of Lake Ontario shoreline
2021 update:
- Completion of the Applewood Wetland and Creek, including over 33,000 aquatic plantings
- Completion of the Serson Creek connection, including 150 linear metres of creek construction
- Substantial progress in construction and underwater habitat restoration on Central and North Island
2022 update:
Progress on the Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area, a 64-acre waterfront greenspace in Mississauga, continues and is on schedule to open in 2025.
As of June 2022, over 1,780,000 m³ of excess soil and concrete rubble have been diverted from landfill for reuse for the project. Staff anticipates the site will no longer accept fill from Peel construction projects by the end of 2022. To date, 15.6 hectares of the site have been restored with meadow, forest, tree swamp and wetland habitat.
By the end of 2022, the following was completed:
- Earth filling from Peel capital works projects
- The planting of over 3,200 trees and shrubs for a total of 36,200 planted to date
- The planting of 3,000 aquatic plants for a total of 77,500 planted to date
- Complete construction of the north and central islands
- Import and placement of approximately 15,700 tonnes of cobble
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Municipality: Mississauga
Action: Ecosystem Protection and Restoration
Category: Agriculture Forest and Other Land Use (AFOLU)