Storm Water Management - Stream Naturalization

[Acitta]

I don't think it's a staff proposal, I think it's just ac3rs proposal.

I very much doubt they would do something like that. Naturalization would be a big challenge in that area because of the constraints--naturalized culverts always take more space. I don't know enough the topic though, to know if it's possible to naturalize the creek intermittently.

Reading the city's stormwater management plans, it doesn't look like Upper Schneider Creek (roughly from Victoria Park to Ottawa St) naturalization is in the short-term plans, although they do plan to make some improvements to the water quality. In some ways this one is not so bad from an enjoyment perspective as there are lots of big trees on both sides and vegetation reaches at least halfway down the concrete slope.  In terms of absorbing floodwaters, though, those trees really don't help at all.

Even if they can't naturalize all of Sneider Creek, naturalizing the tributaries that funnel water to it will do a lot for floodwater management.