Michael Van Valkenburg’s New Toronto Park is a Stormwater Treatment Plant in Disguise
Michael Van Valkenburg’s New Toronto Park is a Stormwater Treatment Plant in Disguise
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The park is designed as a “cistern” that stores and treats stormwater to protect the surrounding neighborhood from flooding. This is done through natural elements like plantings, bioswales, a landscaped berm, and a living marsh. But the play areas do their part as well. Water used at the large splash pad, for example, is treated and then directed back through the marsh.