Remember to bring an antibug spray/cream/lotion with you on your walk!
Preferably with the chemical DEET in it.
(Water quality of various shorelines of the Island of Montreal.)
- Shoreline of the Park Cap St Jacques West of the farm , a large area to walk
- Shoreline of the Park Cap St Jacques Free boat launch area (RDP 75), a large area to walk
- Shoreline of the Park du College (next to RDP 110 Parc Antoine-Faucon), a small size area to walk
- Shoreline of the Park Cheval Blanc/Whitehorse rapids (RDP 180), an extremely large area to walk
- Shoreline of the Roxboro Island (RDP 190), a medium sized area to walk
- Shoreline of the Park Paquin (RDP 200), a small area to walk
- Shoreline of the Park de la Promenade Lalande (East of RDP 200,west of RDP 220), an extremely large area to walk
A "large area" is park where you can not see the boundary's standing somewhere in the park.
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| Red marks on the map of where I clean. |
Shorelines in detail
- Park Cap St Jacques West of the farm
GPS, Bing Maps, Google Maps
It hasn't any RDP number designation
*Toilets ? Yes.
*Significant Garbage: Far west of the farm there is a habitant 3 foot tall X 3 foot wide rock wall-property line. In the springtime lots of trash washes in, onto the land. In summer this trash is usually hidden by the plants and trees.
- Park Cap St Jacques Free boat launch area (RDP 75)
GPS, Bing Maps, Google Maps
RDP 75 (Rivière des Prairies)
*Toilets ? Yes.
*Significant Garbage: There are many creoste impregnated wood beams. These beams are slowly rotting and releasing the poison. A metal truck frame is also visible a few steps west of the dock when water levels are low, but this is not a real danger.
- Shoreline of the Park du College (just west of RDP 110 Parc Antoine-Faucon)
Benches and garbage bins.
- Park Cheval Blanc/Whitehorse rapids (RDP 180)
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| The land was farmland in 1949. |
GPS, Bing Maps, Google Maps
Starting at the train bridge Île Bigras railway crossing, and going east ,finishing at RDP 180 and RDP190.
PHOTO LINK Western edge of Cheval Blanc woods shoreline
PHOTO LINK Cheval Blanc woods shoreline
PHOTO LINK Cheval Blanc park shoreline
http://binged.it/1iUuvi5
PHOTO LINK Eastern Cheval Blanc park shoreline
*Toilets ? None
*Significant Garbage: Cement from the previous use as a sewage treatment plant is unsightly. Rusted contruction rebar ( maybe toxic material because of the persistant chemical smell at the rebar site) and cement blocks left over in the official park land.
[REBAR PHOTO NEEDED]
Fence barriers need to be placed where the Condominium trash containers are located, on the boundary line, placed to catch excess-overflowing garbage before it enters the Cheval Blanc eastern woods. But they use this as a snow dump as well, so I don't think that will happen.
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| Condo garbage containers. |
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| The wind blows garbage into the woods from these containers. |
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| Snow dump melting on the left. |
- Roxboro Island (RDP 190)
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Roxboro Island |
GPS, Bing Maps, Google Maps
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| North Shore News August 22 1974 |
Bing Maps http://binged.it/1aG7Fec
*Toilets ? None *Significant Garbage: Junk fill material was added to the island to make it level back in the 1970s. The Mayor, Mayor Boll got into trouble for this from the Québec government. Either more material needs to be added, or the existing exposed junk needs to be removed.
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| May 2016. I think they got the orange car frame out. |
- Park Paquin (RDP 200)
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| Park Paquin |
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| Shoreline in 1974 |
RDP 200 (Rivière des Prairies).
*Toilets ? None
*Significant Garbage: Street sewer water comes out into the river here, along with whatever garbage is in it. LINK TO MY RANT.
Minor garbage: There are two unsightly large square cement blocks on the shoreline that do not "fit" in. They are too large to sledgehammer. Also one cement sewer pipe is next to one of the blocks.
- Park de la Promenade Lalande (west of RDP 220)
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| Park de la Promenade Lalande |
*Toilets ? None
Ten to twenty feet inland from the river is considered the park, a very thin section of land on the map.
*Significant Garbage: At low water levels the old sewage output lines are exposed and rusting. They look hideous.
Woods List
- Roxboro woods (large area)
- Cheval Blanc/Whitehorse rapids woods (large area)
- Parc des Arbres woods ( large area)
- Parc-nature du Bois-de-Liesse ( western edge, large area)
- Parc Graham (Shakespeare, medium area)
- Parc Roxboro . Gouin and 2nd Street (small area)
Woods details
- Roxboro woods
*Toilets ? None
*Significant Garbage: The south side has blocks of cement and various construction debris.
- Cheval Blanc/Whitehorse rapids woods
*Toilets ? None
*Significant Garbage: A large pile of roofing tiles. Campsite full of trash . A rusted car .
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| I removed these in 2014 |
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| Squatters campsite |
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| Rusted car. I started the process of moving it out of the park. I moved most of the "light" metal to the illegal entrance at the train tracks.UPDATE Nov 2016, most of all metal has been moved to the property line with the train. |
- Park des Arbres woods (west of Cheval Blanc/Whitehorse rapids)
*Toilets ? None
*Significant Garbage: On the boarder of where the houses meet the woods there are places of significant garbage.
- Park nature du Bois-de-Liesse ( western edge)
Parc-nature du Bois-de-Liesse. PDF of Park
*Toilets ? Unknown, it is a very large park
*Significant Garbage: On the western edge the wind blows garbage in from the parking lot. Over time , with an unlimited source of garbage blowing in, a significant amount of garbage accumulates INSIDE.
- Park Graham (Shakespeare)
*Toilets ? None
*Significant Garbage: Unknown
Park Roxboro . Gouin and 2nd Street (small area)
Toilets ? None
Playground with benches, swings, sand and childs climbing fort. Public has access to a fenced in garden to grow food.
No significant garbage
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