Flow State

Toronto's new, hyper-modern stormwater processing plant is where clean lines and filthy water collide EVERY TIME IT RAINS, excess water rushes through the streets of Toronto's downtown eastern core and pours into the city's sewer system.

- Isabel B. Slone

EVERY TIME IT RAINS, excess water rushes through the streets of Toronto's downtown eastern core and pours into the city's sewer system. Its endpoint: the Cherry Street Stormwater Management Facility, where all manner of detritus-cigarettes, sneakers, the odd backpack or two-is filtered out of the water at 385 gallons per second before the torrent rushes down into Lake Ontario.