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Category Archives: Snowpiles

Cleaning Turcot Snowdump

July 24, 2008by neath Leave a comment

It did become quite a mess. Story here. “The borough’s public works department has spent four weeks cleaning the site, and it will take another four to six weeks to […]

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Snowpiles

August/September For Snowpile To Melt

May 24, 2008by neath 1 Comment

Seems it takes a lot longer for these things to melt than most people would imagine. NDG Borough Mayor, Michael Applebaum, says pollution not an issue. Story here. Interesting panorama […]

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Photography, Snowpiles, Urban

Some Manhole Covers, A Leaking Hydrant, And The Disco Ball

May 22, 2008by neath 5 Comments

Round up of some recent stuff.

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Dreams, Infrastructure, Photography, Signs, Snowpiles

douaireg (again)

May 13, 2008by neath 2 Comments

“unbelievable… the turcot yards burried under tons of dirty snow. I wish i could have gotten a better picture, but the guys from the MTQ did not like to see […]

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Driving, Photography, Snowpiles, Urban

Snowpile Update

May 8, 2008by neath Leave a comment

Explored the east end of the Turcot snowpiles the other day. It’s a bit strange how from the freeway it looks like a huge gray snowpile that is just slowly […]

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Photography, Snowpiles, Urban

The Turcot Snowpiles

May 2, 2008by neath Leave a comment

There was some magic going on in the Yards this winter as the snow just kept piling up and up and it was quite beautiful at times. But it has […]

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environment, Infrastructure, Snowpiles, Urban, Video

frigate (more from)

April 22, 2008by neath Leave a comment

Pullman and the foot of the Agrignon overpass. Western end of the Falaise Saint Jacques. That tip was cleared out some years ago, but wasn’t developed save for some advertising. […]

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Development, Photography, Snowpiles

talaba

April 10, 2008by neath Leave a comment

View of the Turcot snowpiles from the 20. And you can catch talaba’s Flickr pages here.

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freeway, Photography, Snowpiles

grey11

April 1, 2008by neath 1 Comment

Nice shot from the Interchange. Catch grey11’s Flickr pages here.

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Driving, freeway, Interchange, Photography, Snow, Snowpiles

Meltdown At Turcot

March 27, 2008by neath 3 Comments

Article in today’s Gazette discusses the Turcot snowpiles in regard to melting and contamination of the water. “There might be a potential for contamination that could have been recognized by […]

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environment, Infrastructure, Otter Lake, Photography, Snow, Snowpiles, Urban, Urban Ecology

Snow Removal At Trudeau

March 18, 2008by neath 1 Comment

Most of us probably do not give a lot of thought to things such as snow removal at the airport. But take an area that is the size of a […]

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Airport, Photography, Snow, Snowpiles

Snowpile

March 3, 2008by neath Leave a comment

This one is just east of Thimens and Poirier in Ville Saint Laurent. Wide angle lens tends to shorten it a bit. I really wished I had a video camera […]

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Snow, Snowpiles, Winter

Calm Before The Storm

February 27, 2008by neath 2 Comments

We are expecting up to 30 cms of snow over the next 48 hours as we continue to pile it up in Montreal. That will sound very sweet to people […]

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architecture, freeway, frozen textiles, Infrastructure, Interchange, Photography, Snowpiles, Structures

Winter Wonderland

February 22, 2008by neath 3 Comments

Well, it sure looks like I at least got to see one large scale project at Turcot Yards that has made the whole journey more than worthwhile. Who would have […]

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Art, frozen textiles, Photography, Snow, Snowpiles, Winter

Call For Snowpiles

February 11, 2008by neath 5 Comments

This one is east of Avro and Des Sources in Dorval. They are all over the island this year and we may never see snowpiles this large again. I am […]

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Art, Photography, Snow, Snowpiles

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