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Moving Mountains
How soil regulations and resilience investments are
making a difference
Connie Vitello
is editor of
Environment
Journal.
TORONTO WAS POUNDED by a powerful “100-year storm” on September 2, 2026—
dumping a month’s worth of rain in just a few hours.
Much of the mainstream media coverage focused on the damage that occurred. The Don
River burst its banks, parts of the Don Valley Parkway 昀氀ooded, and tens of thousands lost
power due to high winds and downed trees.
But those in the know realize things could have been much worse for Torontonians
and its urban infrastructure. Thanks to the city’s past and ongoing climate resilience
investments—such as updated 昀氀ood protection projects, soil management planning and
stormwater systems—an even worse catastrophe was avoided.
Excess Soils Symposium at Evergreen
One of the places hit by the storm was
Evergreen Brick Works, the new venue for our
10th annual Excess Soils Symposium (ESS). I
promptly reached out to Jennifer Angel, CEO of
Evergreen to ask her how they were holding up,
and if the ESS event would be impacted.
DIG INTO THE EXCESS SOILS SYMPOSIUM
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