Don River and Central Waterfront & Connected Projects

Rank 2024

25

Image Credit: Hatch

Industry Sector: Other

Project Type: Water Wastewater

Project Value: $3 billion

Funding Source: Public

Municipal Funding: $3 billion

Province: Ontario

City / Region: Toronto

Estimated End Date of Substantial Completion: 2038

Toronto is embarking on the largest and most significant stormwater management program in the city’s history. This program will greatly improve the water quality in the Lower Don River, Taylor-Massey Creek and along Toronto’s Inner Harbour by keeping combined sewer overflows out of our waterways by upgrading technology and increasing the system’s capacity to capture, transport and treat them. The project is comprised of an integrated system of tunnels, storage shafts, connections, an integrated pumping station, a high-rate treatment facility, a real-time control system and wastewater treatment plant upgrades. The program is made up of several individual

projects that will work together, including the Don River and Central Waterfront Wet Weather Flow System, the Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant (ABTP) Integrated Pumping Station, ABTP Ultra-Violet (UV) Disinfection Facility, ABTP Landform and high-rate treatment facility, and the ABTP Outfall. 

Project Owner: City of Toronto

P3 Team Members/Project Team: Don River and Central Waterfront Wet Weather Flow System (DR&CW WWF System): •Coxwell bypass (stage 1): Black & Veatch Canada in association with R.V. Anderson Associates Ltd. (consultants); North Tunnel Constructors (contractor) •Inner Harbour West Tunnel: Hatch/AECOM (consultant) •Mid-Toronto-Interceptor (MTI) Real-Time Control: Tetra Tech (consultant) •Integrated Pumping Station (IPS): Black & Veatch Canada in association with R.V. Anderson Associates Ltd. (consultants); Strabag Canada (contractor-contract 2) •Ashbridges Bay Landform Project: Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) with Shoreplan Engineering (designer); TRCA (constructor of landform) •UV (Ultraviolet) Disinfection Facility: AECOM (consultants); Graham (contractor) •Outfall: Hatch, Jacobs and Baird (consultants); (SAJV) Southland Astaldi Joint Venture (contractor)

Other Key Players: Wood E&I (WSP) (environmental engineer/geotechnical studies); Golder- a WSP company (geotechnical services); Arcadis-IBI Group (risk assessment); LEA Consulting (engineer-planning); R.V. Anderson Associates Ltd.; E.S. Fox; Arup (engineer)

2023 Rank: 24

2022 Rank: 25

2021 Rank: 31

2020 Rank: 28

2019 Rank: 25