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Category: Environment & Climate Change

  • Ice blasting has begun

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    Every year in March, city staff spend a couple of weeks on the Rideau River just upstream from the Rideau Falls, cutting key lines for ice floes that are first blasted apart, then freed to float down into the Ottawa River. It’s a flood management strategy that has saved many a property in Lowertown and…

  • Winter walkability audit

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    This week Lowertown community members invited Councillor Mathieu Fleury to join us on a winter walkability audit. Led by John Woodhouse, we gathered on William Street and noted issues with the construction barricades up for the LRT station and delivery trucks when parked in front of the Highlander which prohibited pedestrian access. It would be…