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- 1. :PAST|PRESENT|PROPOSEDREFLECTIONREFLECTION The plant was named for Roland Caldwell Harris, Commissioner of Works for the former City of Toronto from 1912 until his death in 1945 and is a fitting memorial to his long and brilliant career in the public service. Owing to his foresight and that of his consultants, the original plant included all embedded piping for future enlargement, as well as space for future equipment in pumping, screening, electrical and chemical rooms. Both the original plant and the additions were designed by and construction supervised by the consulting engineering firms of H.G. Acres Limited and Gore and Storrie Limited. Constructed in the 1930s, it has been declared a national historic civil engineering site. When the former Metro Toronto Works Department became responsible for water supply, it was decided early in 1954 that additional filtration capacity was urgently required. As a result, the plant was enlarged to 910 million litres per day at a cost of $7.3 million (1955-1958). The enlargement included construction of a second intake, doubling the filtration and settling areas and installation of major pumping and electrical equipment. R. C. Harris continues to be Toronto’s largest water treatment facility, producing up to 47% of Toronto’s and the Region of York’s water demands. HERITAGE For more than 70 years, the R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant has provided safe drinking water to Toronto’s residents and York Region. It is now one of four City water treatment plants- taking raw water from Lake Ontario and cleans, disinfects, and converts it into safe potable/drinking water for pumping into the City’s distribution system. Located in an attractive east-end community called The Beach, the plant is well known for its architectural features. It is often described as a... “sparkling jewel by the lake” •a new public utility, the Toronto Water Works Commission, is created and assumes the assets of the existing private water franchise; the water supply system is completely overhauled; infiltration basins are dug into Toronto Island’s southern beach as a primitive means of filtering raw lake water •the infiltration basins prove ineffective and are abandoned; an intake pipe is built 2600ft out into Lake Ontario. with no filtration provided •Victoria Park, a privately owned commercial amusement ground, operates on the east side of the City of Toronto/Township of Scarborough border; the park closed after the property was purchased •construction of Toronto’s first modern water filtration plant got approved for pumping 45M imperial gallons per day •a typhoid outbreak prompts the chlorination of Toronto’s unfiltered water supply •the Board of Water Commissioners dupplicated the intake and filtration capacity •Council approves a $1.1 million expansion of the filtration plant •Construction started •the Filter/Administration Building and the Terrace are built •the mass concrete seawall and main intake pipe are built •the Pumping Station and the Service Building are built •Operation started on November 1st •Roland Caldwell Harris, Commissioner for the former City of Toronto, passed away and Victoria Park is officially named “The R.C. Harris Water Purification and Pumping Plant” •the east extension to the Filter Building is built; all efforts are made to achieve symmetry between the east and west filter operating galleries •the parking lot west of the Pumping Station is enlarged to facilitate chemical truck turning movements •Michael Ondaatje’s novel ‘In the Skin of a Lion’ is published and the Plant provides a crucial setting with Commissioner Harris as a character in the storyline •the Plant is designated by the Canadian society for Civil Engineering as a National Historic Civil Engineering Site •designated under the Ontario Heritage Act “as being of historical and architectural value” •the Plant is opened to the public • the Plant’s 60th anniversary of producing filtered, chlorinated water •flat roof on the Service Building is completed with window openings to allow for secure transparent glazing installation •Canada Post issues a stamp commemorating the Plant as part of a series on Canadian Art Deco architecture •more facade renovations were completed •Water Education Centre with pool facility proposed to honour and promote the legacy of R.C. Harris Water Purification Plant 1872-1877 1881-1882 1878-1906 1908 1910 1911 1913 1932 1932-1935 1933 1935-1937 1941 1945 1955-1956 1985 1987 1992 1998 2000 2001 2006-2008 2011 2012 2014 2014 1956 1937 1935 TIMELINE 1992 1956 1937 EXISTING ADDITION ANGELA ZHUO - WATER EDUCATION CENTRE WITH PARK AND POOLPARK & SCHOOL FILTER PLANT
- 2. 1:500 1 2 6 7 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 PROGRAMS 1. RECEPTION 2. GALLERY 3. OFFICES 4. BOARDROOM 5. LIBRARY & ARCHIVES 6. EXHIBITION 7. LECTURE HALL 8. LOUNGE 9. CAFE 10.BARS 11. WATER FEATURE 12. CHANGING ROOMS 13. STEAM ROOMS 14. WASHROOMS 15. MINERAL POOL 16. SWIMMING POOL 17. PARKING LOT 18. DROP OFF & PICK UP 19. GARDENS 20. TRAILS 21. CANOPY 22. DECK 23. BEACH 24. TURF 25. SEATING AREA 26. LOADING AREA 21 22 23 24 25 25 26 FILTER BUILDING PUMPING STATION SERVICE BUILDING BELVEDERE
- 4. aerial view pool view deck view of pool exhibition
- 5. deck view of pool lobby boardroom library & archivesreception lounge office officeofficew.c.cafe lounge pool changeroom changeroom w.c.w.c. w.c. stairs exhibition hall & lecture hall gallery steamsteam w.c.w.c. stairs east wing stairs water feature waterwall mid-terrace west wing stairs mid-terrace seating areaseating area switchback trails front section garden trails
- 6. pool section east view corridor section second level section courtyards section belvedere view