Work to start soon on clean up of Riverside Drive but safety will come first

Granter says the hope is remediation will begin this week, weather permitting.

An update on the landslide situation on Riverside Drive was given at last night’s regular council meeting. The road has been closed since April 2nd when a landslide swept two people in a vehicle into the Humber River. Councillor Vaughn Granter gave a update saying staff  has been working diligently with Geotechnical experts to develop a plan to secure the safety of the slide site and to clean up the roadway so that it can be re-opened to the public. On Thursday of last week, the Geotechnical consultant provided staff with a plan to remediate the site and an explanation of how the slide occurred. Staff immediately began preparing to implement the plan by securing equipment and materials. Granter says the hope is remediation will begin this week, weather permitting. The first step is to install protective measures, including concrete barriers and chain link fence at the base of the slope to protect crews and the public from any small debris that may fall from the failure site. Once safety measures are in place, crews can begin to clean up the material from the roadway and fix damaged infrastructure such as guide rail and utility poles. This work will take several days to complete.