{"id":45460,"date":"2024-07-23T10:33:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T14:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/environmentaldefence.ca\/?p=45460"},"modified":"2024-07-23T11:03:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T15:03:24","slug":"wetlands-what-are-they-good-for-mitigating-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/environmentaldefence.ca\/2024\/07\/23\/wetlands-what-are-they-good-for-mitigating-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"Wetlands \u2014 what are they good for? (mitigating flooding)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last week, Toronto experienced another \u201c100 year storm\u201d just 11 years after the previous one in 2013. The city saw some of the worst flooding caused by torrential rainfall that surpassed the daily record from 1941. The storm caused widespread power outages and shut down major traffic routes such as the Don Valley Parkway, as vehicles were submerged in a cocktail of rain and sewage water.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>So why exactly did this happen?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s obviously a number of reasons for why this happened. Yes, the extreme rainfall likely owes something to climate change, but another key factor contributing to the flash flood is the destruction of critical natural areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45467 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/environmentaldefence.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image.png\" alt=\"Six frame illustration of how natural landscapes help mitigate flooding\" width=\"526\" height=\"465\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b2399578.smushcdn.com\/2399578\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image.png?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 526w, https:\/\/b2399578.smushcdn.com\/2399578\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-300x265.png?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 526px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 526\/465;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45467\" src=\"https:\/\/environmentaldefence.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image.png\" alt=\"Six frame illustration of how natural landscapes help mitigate flooding\" width=\"526\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/b2399578.smushcdn.com\/2399578\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image.png?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 526w, https:\/\/b2399578.smushcdn.com\/2399578\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-300x265.png?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For decades Ontario has been paving over natural areas &#8211; like wetlands &#8211; that are naturally designed to absorb rain water and prevent something like this from happening. Since the 1950s, this province has chosen to pave over almost the entire headwaters of the Don River &#8211; from North York to Vaughan, Markham and King City &#8211; transforming it into car-dependent sprawling developments. By converting hundreds of acres of natural green space into large swaths of pavement, we have destroyed the absorption ability of the natural landscape which leaves rain water with nowhere to go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22611 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/environmentaldefence.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Sprawl-resize.jpg\" alt=\"Sprawl\" width=\"1936\" height=\"1296\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b2399578.smushcdn.com\/2399578\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Sprawl-resize.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1936w, https:\/\/b2399578.smushcdn.com\/2399578\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Sprawl-resize-300x201.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 300w, https:\/\/b2399578.smushcdn.com\/2399578\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Sprawl-resize-768x514.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 768w, https:\/\/b2399578.smushcdn.com\/2399578\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Sprawl-resize-1024x685.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1936px) 100vw, 1936px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1936px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1936\/1296;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22611\" src=\"https:\/\/environmentaldefence.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Sprawl-resize.jpg\" alt=\"Sprawl\" width=\"1936\" height=\"1296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/b2399578.smushcdn.com\/2399578\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Sprawl-resize.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1936w, https:\/\/b2399578.smushcdn.com\/2399578\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Sprawl-resize-300x201.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 300w, https:\/\/b2399578.smushcdn.com\/2399578\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Sprawl-resize-768x514.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 768w, https:\/\/b2399578.smushcdn.com\/2399578\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Sprawl-resize-1024x685.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1936px) 100vw, 1936px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h2><b>How can we prevent future flooding?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bad news is that this will most likely happen again. This is especially concerning now that even more of those essential spaces are being put at risk by Premier Ford\u2019s incessant highway and sprawl agenda.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unless we cancel schemes like Highway 413 and\u00a0 focus on building new homes and workplaces in existing built up areas rather than sprawl, more farms, forests, and wetlands will be paved over and we will see more severe flooding in the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take action today to stop the destructive Highway 413 and accompanying sprawl. Help prevent another 100 year flood from happening in the next decade. <a href=\"https:\/\/act.environmentaldefence.ca\/page\/141037\/action\/1\">Send a letter to your local MP<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Toronto experienced another \u201c100 year storm\u201d just 11 years after the previous one in 2013. The city saw some of the worst&#8230;<a class=\"more-link\"   href=\"https:\/\/environmentaldefence.ca\/2024\/07\/23\/wetlands-what-are-they-good-for-mitigating-flooding\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":45466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[615,1920],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-protecting-ontarios-environment"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Wetlands \u2014 what are they good for? 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