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The evidence
for this creek in the block from Roehampton Ave. and Redpath
Ave. to Eglinton and Mount Pleasant is very indistinct.
It is suggested that a walk be started at Eglinton and Mount
Pleasant. Walk east to Falcon St. and south to Soudan Ave.,
noting as one passes Taunton Rd. that the storm trunk sewer
serving this area starts here and we will meet it again at
Falcon and Soudan. Walking down Falcon St. we begin following
the Trunk Sanitary Sewer that serves most of North Toronto
east of Yonge or north of Lawrence. At Soudan Ave. and Falcon,
we meet the storm trunk mentioned earlier. We can also note
a dip in the streets marking the former creek.
We follow
both sewers along Soudan and south along Forman Ave. From
Manor Road to Davisville Avenue Forman Ave and the two trunk
sewers follow quite closely the route of the former creek,
which is in an obvious valley. At Belsize Drive we cross a
small park, well treed, but mostly Norway Maples with some
Lindens Elms and Ash. A little north of Davisville Avenue,
Forman and the sanitary trunk sewer turn south. The sewer
meets the Balliol Combined Trunk Sewer along Balliol Street
on it way to the NTSTP in the Don Valley south of Laird Drive.
At Davisville
Avenue, go east to a lane east of Martin Rd. The storm trunk
follows Davisville from McCord Rd. to this lane. We follow
this sewer down this lane to Balliol Street. The storm trunk
sewer continues south, joining another storm sewer at Merton
Street serving Bayview, into Mount Pleasant Cemetery. The
storm sewer flows south through Mount Pleasant Cemetery to
empty into Mud Creek. Jog east to Cleveland Street along Balliol
Street and south to Merton Street. The creek crossed Merton
Just east of Cleveland Street and flowed south east across
Mount Pleasant Cemetery where
it is buried under many feet of fill. Follow Merton east to
Bayview Avenue then south past Sutherland Dr. and the pedestrian
gate into Mount Pleasant Cemetery, to follow Cudmore Creek
along The Bayview Reach.
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