Gone fishin’ in Waterloo
I posted about a fish-shaped catch basin grate near the Leaside Bridge a couple of winters ago. It remains the only one I’ve seen in Toronto, but I found the mother lode of them last weekend in Waterloo:
They seemed to be along the entire length of Margaret Avenue in Waterloo, and were probably elsewhere in the city as well. Waterloo Region has a detailed casting design for them (page 20 of this PDF) while also noting that they are only for use within the city of Waterloo and nowhere else within the region. So how did we get one in Toronto? The one here has a slightly different design, or I might have suspected someone at Toronto Water of having sticky fingers.
I’ve seen plenty of those fish-shaped grates around. But now I’m just not sure exactly where, though I’m sure I’ve seen them in Toronto. I’ll keep this in mind and report back.
There are other examples on Flickr from Toronto, Ottawa….. http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=fish+sewer+grate
I mentioned the Ottawa ones in my original post, but still haven’t seen any others in person in Toronto yet. I’m going to have to start inspecting the side of the road even more than usual.
I saw some like this in Pemberton north of Whistler, BC