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Cherry St bascule bridge has been lowered back down and allowing traffic to pass as of early this morning.

EDIT: It will be open to traffic until Monday at noon.
https://twitter.com/x/status/1799146917667983575

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Northern Light said:
The Star out with a piece outlining the process for removing the plugs........and a minor snag when one sprung a leak sooner than planned:

www.thestar.com

Filling the new Don River valley was all going according to plan. Then it sprang a leak

The next step in the massive project is to reconnect the Don so it flows into Lake Ontario along its new river valley. But first there was a snag.
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Lots of good explanations, including why we saw filling go pretty quickly, and how the heck they were removing the plugs:

Right now, workers and machines are slicing the wall into 10 pieces. Divers drill holes in the wall underwater and feed a diamond wire saw through it. The wire is attached to a machine on shore that turns, slicing through the concrete, cutting 10 to 15 feet per day.

Each piece will weigh about 45 to 55 metric tonnes, Forbes said — about 99,000 to 121,000 pounds.

Cutting such a massive piece takes time. To slice three metres off the top of the west plug (to allow room for a barge to hold the excavator that will remove some pieces) took about a month, [Waterfront Toronto’s project director Don] Forbes said.
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hawc said:
Are they talking about North or South Plug?
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There are 3 plugs and the first to be removed will be the West Plug, which is the one between the river and the Lake. (Polson Slip)
 
The article has a nice map with the plugs in red. It's blocking the southern entrance to the overflow area.
 
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