East Toronto Combined Sewer

The East Toronto Combined Sewer serves the area around the southwest end of Kingston Road, and would have been pricipally built to provide sewer service for the former municipality of East Toronto, which was annexed by the City of Toronto in 1908. It is a concrete arch with a brick floor and central channel. Near the intersection of Dundas Street and Kingston Road, the dry-weather flow is diverted by a weir into a much smaller sewer that takes it south to a larger sewer at Queen Street where it flows west to the Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant. Several other small combined sewers would have once emptied into the East Toronto Sewer, but are now similarly directed into the smaller pipe.

Map of sewer. Photographs are marked with a circle, click to open a popup on the map, click on the ensuing thumbnail to open the full version. All paths and photo locations are approximate.