Video: New Mississauga conservation area promises to be a ‘gem’ for the city
Published August 26, 2022 at 5:14 pm
Alongside the huge Lakeview Village community that will take shape along the eastern waterfront in Mississauga, an environmental “gem” promises to thrill residents and others for generations to come.
A key part of the new 177-acre community that’s expected to transform Mississauga’s waterfront is the nearby 64-acre Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area, named for the late City of Mississauga councillor who worked to bring the project to fruition.
A restored Serson Creek now flows into the conservation area, which will offer plenty of additional greenspace when it fully opens in 2025.
The creek was disconnected from Lake Ontario in the mid-1960s, when it was buried and piped underground, essentially becoming one of Mississauga’s “lost rivers.” Lost rivers are waterways that have been buried beneath ground to make way for development.
The restoration of Serson Creek began in 2016, when the Credit Valley Conservation Authority (CVC), Region of Peel and Toronto and Region Conservation Authority started work on the new conservation area.
In a recent interview (see below) with CVC manager of capital projects Jesse de Jager, Heritage Mississauga historian Matthew Wilkinson asks a number of questions about the conservation area that he calls “the newly-developing conservation area soon to be…the gem of the waterfront in Mississauga, perhaps.”
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Lakeview Village and the Jim Tovey Conservation Area are being developed on the site that was once home to the 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.”
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