$300.00 dollar fine

Dumping at Parc Cheval Blanc Rapids, Parc des Arbres is cheaper than going to the dump!

The good, the old rock wall

In my previous photos you may have the impression the place is terrible, it is not.
I have removed all the small garbage items of plastic. I did not take before pictures, but I have run out of those plastic bags from the grocery store that we all keep.

I wonder about the history of the land. In the Google photos of the parks you can see lines. These lines are rock walls. I presume a farmer some time in the past piled the rocks there. Erosion where the land reaches the river, tells me the river level used to be much lower, so I don't think it has been a "wetlands" for long.

A mystery is the City sewer system kind of pipes on the land. When were they put in place?

The train bridge was built in 1882. Île Bigras railway crossing. There is a camera on the bridge. I don't know if the camera is watched.

Back to the rock walls.

first rock wall going west from Rue Riviera Park
rock wall on the river
Second wall on the trail
Picture of the river and the train bridge up ahead

Joaquim Serrano photo from http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/21411875.jpg

Third rock wall looking south. It opens to a large area . In spring time this is underwater and ducks rest here. It also has something quite bad, but this is supposed to be a good post so I will not name it.

Third rock wall looking west towards the bridge.

More Tires and garbage at the Park

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A very old metal oil drum. I know of another drum container but in worse condition.
UPDATE: Summer of 2014 I took out the oil drum in the above photo. I accidentally cut my leg with it when I was taking it out, a permanent souvenir of the action.
Taking out light trash in garbage bag. Odd things. A pole for an umbrella table and a broken shovel base.
old beer can with the old V opening and a plastic jug
Large peice of metal. There are several peices like this in the area

Same picture with lines I drew to indicate a larger truck with double rear wheels was here, as the ground held its shape afterwards. This is in the middle of the woods.
Same spot different angle. What is an oil container doing in the middle ofthe woods?
Finding this removed all doubt, the land was used as a dump.
Another tire
Large amount of wire
Another tire
cement waste close-up
Unknown waste in rotten black garbage bag.
Far away picture

Parc Cheval Blanc Rapids, Parc des Arbres

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Two car tires , a car battery and the frame of a motorcycle on one of the sewer outcroppings.


Top of a car battery, I don't know where the rest of the battery is at.

Cheval Blanc Rapids

NOTE : I took the engine block out myself in the fall of 2012 CLICK HERE.


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http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=5697,32919586&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

Cheval Blanc Rapids

"Hikers in search of natural vistas in the vicinity of Cheval Blanc Rapids bordering Rivière des Prairies will delight in the area's numerous wetlands and superb wooded shorelines."

The city never cleaned the land up and doesn't disclose the sewer system going through the park.
Reportedly the land was bought in 2003 after years of dispute. This 2003 owner built on half of the nature parks land.

By "clean the land up" I mean pick up the heavy trash left behind by previous owners.
There is at least two cars rotting there.
I believe but do not have the money to hire a lab report, that there is oil being released from the junk and trash.
You can see oil slicks on the water in the swamp area. I presume it came from the cars? How much oil is in a car engine?

Besides car, car frame and engines laying about , I know of eight (8) car rubber truck tires located in various parts of the park. (UpdateNov 25,2009: I know of TEN tires now)
Very scenic. NOT


Six car tire pile I made.( I later took the car tires out myself)


First car



End of first car (four photos).( a significant portion of the car was brought to the property line. Engine block and some frame remain 2016)


garbage along the trail with scale of my foot.


garbage along the trail.





These large bags of packaged compost are in the middle of the park. I wonder who put them there, and how they got there? Whoever was doing a cover up, got lazy and didn't remove the wrapper.



Second car near wetlands. (I later took it out)


Second car near wetlands. ( I cut it into smaller pieces and took it out)


A bed or futon? I don't know. In the woods section, on the west side of the train tracks.(Parc des Arbres) UPDATE: I took the metal in the above photo out of the woods in the fall of 2013.


Minor garbage of stolen telephone boxes. UPDATE took them out in 2013


Abandoned tree fort. I approve of kids building forts in the woods. All kids should do this. Someone just has clean up when they abandon it, or it falls down. Maybe check it for dangerousness like nails to step on, or sharp wood that could impale someone.
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Major Garbage in Parc des Arbres next to Parc Cheval Blanc Rapids,west side of the train tracks, near the houses.

Construction garbage A LOT. Too much to do by hand and bag. Plastic, wires junk.

Construction garbage A LOT. Too much to do by hand and bag. Plastic, wires junk.
This was recent and intentional, so it really got me angry. Some bastard didn't want to spend $50.00 and the trip to a dump to properly get rid of this garbage. $300.00 fine? That's too low a fine to scare someone. Should be a $5000.00 fine. Has the legal fine of dumping been cost indexed since its inception date (1960's?)?