Help shape the future of Millwood Park and Carlyle Park

Moving forward, this project will be called "Help shape the future of Millwood Park and Carlyle Park".

We have expanded the Millwood Park project to include upgrades to Carlyle Park as well. As a result, we've updated this webpage to reflect this new direction and added some additional information. If you bookmarked the webpage, please update your bookmarks to reflect the new web address.

Would you like us to send you a copy of the old project description for comparison? Please reach out to Bart Mazan, Design and Construction Project Manager (Sanitary and Stormwater Utilities) at bart.mazan@kitchener.ca or 519-503-1641

There will be an opportunity for you to contribute to the design of these parks later in 2023. In the meantime, we are continuing our field monitoring and assessments.

Please reach out directly if you have any questions, or post your question to the Ask a Question section of the project webpage.

Thank you for your questions and feedback. We are continuing to do an initial assessment of soil conditions and the water table. Subscribe to this page for information about the next phases of this project.

Preliminary concept from the 2016 Stormwater Master Plan

We added a preliminary concept to the document library. This shows early ideas for the stormwater management pond in Millwood Park. This concept is from the Stormwater Master Plan, approved by Council in 2016.

Do you need an accessible version of this document? Please get in touch with Chris Nechacov Chris.Nechacov@kitchener.ca, 519-741-2200 x 7148

Geotechnical Investigation:

You may see heavy equipment such as an earth auger within the park in the next week or two. This is to see the conditions of the soil which is necessary to begin the design. If you have any questions, please post them to the Questions tab or reach out to the project team.

In 2016, the City of Kitchener Council approved a stormwater master plan. This plan created a strategy to manage stormwater for the next 15 years. Through this plan, we learned that only 25 percent of runoff in the city is managed through stormwater facilities. This means that 75 percent of runoff from heavy rainfall and snow melt flows into storm sewers, contaminating local creeks.

The master plan identified initial concepts for the installation of projects across Kitchener. As we look at each project, we will examine the technical feasibility of adjusting the designs to meet community needs.

The Government of Canada awarded us nearly $50 million through the Disaster Mitigation Adaptation Fund. Access to this funding means we can install needed stormwater measures at a reduced cost to the community. And we can do this much sooner than what would have been possible without the funding. We need to comply with their funding requirements, which places an extra constraint on these projects.

We consulted city-wide on the stormwater master plan. That consultation met the needs of the master plan. But as we look closer at specific projects, we know we need to have more consultation with the community.

Consultation for the Class Environmental Assessment

This project was approved by the Ministry of the Environment in 2016 as part of the Integrated Stormwater Management Master Plan (ISWM-MP). If community consultations lead to required project modifications, we will seek to amend the relevant planning tools -- in this case, the Class Environmental Assessment, under which the ISWM-MP was completed.