Lower Channel of the Don
The Don River's character changes as one walks north
from the open waterfront delta. In this section the
river's historic meanders have been replaced with a
long linear man-made channel designed to control flood
waters. Most efforts to improve this infrastructure
has involved creating a place for residents to enjoy.
Access to the reach is through staors from the surrounding
nieghborhoods as well as a bike path that runs paralell
to the river. Outlined below is a proposal Michael Hough
presented in 1993 at a workshop called Hydropolis: The
Role of Water in Urban Planning.
| Expected outcomes
- Infrastructure naturalization program for
wildlife and fish habitat renewal
- Improved water quality by mimicing pre-chanelized
condition by implementing a sequence of pools
and ripples
- A valley in which residents have places to
stop, picnic, fish and listen to the river as
its waters tumble over stones.
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(Hough 1993) |
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1993)
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