Bernie Amell was the initiator of the Calgary Perimeter Greenway, an 80+ km long open space corridor centred on the creation of a 4 m wide multi-use pathway to circumscribe the city. The project is being implemented by the Parks Foundation Calgary. With numerous connections to the adjacent communities, this new open space system will provide needed pathway recreation opportunities and related amenities for communities that are not currently well connected to the riv...
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In order to enable the development of the adjacent Mission Recreation Park, several local agricultural drainage ditches were to be intercepted and “improved”. In place of a more conventional approach of simply deepening and widening these ditches, an ecologically restorative design was developed which provided the necessary drainage, while creating valued creek, marsh and riparian habitat. One of the innovations of the project was the use of soil cement banks on...
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This project began in 1999 as a stormwater facility to manage runoff volumes and contaminant loading from a 6 km length of Deerfoot Trail, Calgary’s major urban freeway. A high standard of water treatment was required due to the sensitivity of a trout fishery in the receiving waters of the Bow River, south of Fish Creek Park. Innovative solutions were required due to the number of approving authorities and stakeholders, the sheer size and complexity of the work, and...
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Bernie Amell identified an opportunity to extend the LRT stormwater management facility to provide a cost effective retrofit to treat water from a nearby storm trunk discharging to the Fish Creek. In return for the benefits of this retrofit, the provincial parks agency allowed the LRT stormwater facilities to be integrated within a previously damaged portion of the park landscape. The net result is a precedent-setting example of ecological design providing a balance o...
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