People told to park in Toronto to visit new conservation area in Mississauga

Visitors to the new Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area in Mississauga’s south end are being told to park at a neighbouring green space in Toronto and not at a large wastewater treatment plant in Mississauga.

Peel Region, which operates the G.E. Booth Water Resource Recovery Facility (formerly the Lakeview Wastewater Treatment Plant) at 1300 Lakeshore Rd. E., is urging conservation area visitors to not park their vehicles at the plant.

The G.E. Booth facility is located to the immediate west of the new 64-acre conservation area, which opened to the public on May 30.

Instead, region officials are telling people to park at Marie Curtis Park in the Etobicoke area of Toronto just to the east of the Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area.

Peel officials said on Thursday they’re “thrilled that everyone can now explore the new Jim Tovey (Lakeview) Conservation Area on Lake Ontario,” but the wastewater treatment plant is not the place to leave their cars. 

Map shows the G.E. Booth Water Resource Recovery Facility (formerly the Lakeview Wastewater Treatment Plant), which is located just west of the new Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area. Marie Curtis Park in Toronto is located just east of the conservation area.

The new $59-million conservation area opened to the community in late May after a delay of nearly a year. It was initially to open in July 2025.

Described as “a landmark project that’s been more than a decade in the making,” the huge conservation area is named for the late Mississauga city councillor who worked to bring the project to fruition.

Those behind the Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area added it promises to “transform a once-industrial shoreline into a vibrant natural space along Lake Ontario.” 

The large, reimagined natural space is a joint restoration project led by Credit Valley Conservation, the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority and Peel Region. The cities of Mississauga and Toronto also contributed to the substantial project.

Conservation authority officials have noted the new space presents itself as “a place for exploration, reflection and connection with nature, and it offers expansive landscapes and stunning views of the lake.”

One of the pedestrian bridges at the Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area. (Photo: Credit Valley Conservation)

Visitors can explore scenic trails, boardwalks and lookout points, discover newly created habitats and experience “a place designed to reconnect people and wildlife with the waterfront.”

The new conservation area also features “restored wetlands, meadows and shoreline habitat already supporting fish, birds, turtles and other wildlife along Lake Ontario,” CVC said earlier. 

Built on a previously degraded section of shoreline, the Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area reuses construction rubble and fill as a sustainable resource to create a greenspace that connects the community back to Lake Ontario, project leaders said earlier.

Lakeview Village, a large new mixed-use community, and the new conservation area are being developed on the site that was once home to Lakeview Generating Station. It was shut down in 2005, complete with the controlled demolition of the iconic smokestacks known for decades as “The Four Sisters.”

(Cover photo: From Credit Valley Conservation video)

More than a decade in the making, the new 26-hectare Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area has transformed the Mississauga shoreline. This includes bringing a section of Serson Creek back to life. Buried and piped underground in the 1960s, we reconnected the creek back to Lake… pic.twitter.com/Cn8FrRY5bu

— Credit Valley Conservation (@CVC_CA) June 4, 2026