Toronto Works and Emergency Services

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Water

Toronto maintains a network of water filtration plants, pumping stations and reservoirs providing water to the city of Toronto. Some facilities are located outside the city, namely in York Region.

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In the past[when?] waste water was dumped into the lake and thus caused the waters off Toronto to become polluted. Since then[when?] the city has treated water from households and industry and commercial consumers before it returns to Lake Ontario. gray iron cast

Most of the sewage treatment facilities are located along the lake and sludge is sent to dumps and to other facilities in the province:

Ashbridge's Bay Waste Treatment Plant

Humber Bay Waste Treatment Plant

North Toronto Waste Treatment Plant

Highland Creek Waste Treatment Plant

Dee Avenue Laboratory

Public works projects initiated by the city involves items like repairing sewers, water networks, and maintaining city facilities.

There are approximately 1600 storm sewers that drain rainwater to creeks in rivers in the city. Accidental runoff from sanitary sewers have led to severe pollution in a number of water ways.

Critical waterways used to drain water in the city include:

Humber River

Don River

Highland Creek

Massey Creek

Etobicoke Creek

Black Creek

Solid Waste Management

The city's Solid Waste Management is responsible for picking up garbage and recycling in the city. Most of the services are public with Etobicoke contracted out due to previously signed by the former City of Etobicoke:

Garbage transfer stations

Bermondsey transfer station

Commissioner Street transfer station

Disco transfer station

Dufferin transfer station

Ingram transfer station

Scarborough transfer station

Victoria Park transfer station

Public Works yards

Booth

Disco transfer station

Ellesmere Yard

Etobicoke Civic Centre

Ingram transfer station

King Street

Central

Bermondsey transfer station

Scarborough transfer station

Yonge Street

The city once owned landfills in the Greater Toronto Area, but solid waste is now shipped to a landfill the city bought near St. Thomas, Ontario and another facility in Michigan. A list of some of the dumps being used or that were used in past:

Carleton Farms - Carelton, Michigan

Green Lane - Southwold, Ontario

Brock Road in Pickering - closed

Keele Valley Landfill in Vaughan - closed

Islington and Finch - closed

Beare Road - closed

A list of waste management programs applied in Toronto:

Recycling System

Blue Box

Green Bin

Composting

Grey Box

Snow Removal

Toronto has budget money and resources for salting and plowing city roads in winter. There are 600 snowplows and 300 sidewalk snow removal equipment run by 1300 personnel.

Fleet

Sterling Trucks Accetra heavy duty trucks

Peterbilt 357 dump trucks

Mack Trucks/Ford road sweepers

Heil Environmental Industries Limited Formula 7000 Square Body side loader garbage trucks

Allianz Series 3000 street sweepers

Ride on street vacuums

Crane Carrier Corporation side loaders were part of the City of North York's fleet prior to merger of the waste departments in 1998

Ford F-series pickup trucks

Reorganization

The current structure is as follows:

Toronto Technical Services Division - environmental, emergency and engineering

Toronto Support Services Division - planning, financing and administration

Toronto Water is a new body responsible for water and sewage treatment in the city.

The department was formed the merger of the public works departments of each of the municipalities and with Metro Toronto Works Department).

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