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A4 WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 22. 2014 BREAKING NEWS AT OTTAWACITIZEN.COM THE OTTAWA CITIZEN 10 kitometres Rideau Canal: A fixer-upper Looking at the work to be done The Citizen has highlighted parts of the Rideau Canal with the most deferred work. The amounts listed here (in 2012 dollars) are for the anticipated costs of that delayed maintenance and repair work. New video shows Ford swearing, incoherent Toronto mavor admits to drinking OsDttawa OHartwells Hogs Back Black Rapids Rivers Canal walls Lock station Citytown Rideau Waterway Canal: Traffic declined in 2013 Continued from page Al Canal walls Ottawa Locks to Mackenzie Ave.

Mackenzie Ave. to $L854M $2M Long Island Manotick OTTAWA LaurierAve. Laurier Ave. to Pretoria Bridge Pretoria Bridge to Bank St. JOSH VISSER AND NATALIE ALCOBA Kars Bank St.

to Bronson Ave. Dow's Lake wall starting at Bronson Ave. $857,000 Bronson Ave. and Dow's Lake to Hartwell Locks S1.427M Hartwell Locks to Hog's Back $L177M POSTMEDiA NEWS TORONTO Rob Ford's attempts to reform his image ahead of the mayoral election this year appear to have been shattered after a damaging new video surfaced Tuesday showing the Toronto mayor drunk, swearing and making offensive remarks about the city's police chief. Just moments after Coun.

1 Kemptville Burritts Rapids Burrits Rapids 0 Nicholsons Poonamalie clowes Merrickville 1 Merrickville Fall Beveridges -i Perth Doug Ford rushed to defend his brother claiming "100 per cent (the video) didn't hap- lower Rideau Lake 1 pen last nigni, me mayor Smiths Falls Old Slys ptA it Jimi 1 Hi Edmonds Kilmarnock Big Rideau Lake Portland Narrows Upper Rideau Lake Westport NewboroS Newborn Lake Elgin Delta Davis Chaffeys Sand Lake Jones Falls Lyndhurst Opinicon Lake Selected locks Ottawa locks (locks 1-8) Hartwell Locks (locks 9-10) Black Rapids (lock 13) Long Island (locks 14-16) Merrickville (locks 21-23) Edmonds (lock 25) Old Slys (locks 26-27) Smiths Falls combined (lock 29A) Poonamalie (lock 32) Narrows (lock 35) Chaffeys (lock 37) Jones Falls (locks 39-42) Kingston Mills (locks 46-49) S3.876M S1.292M S2.584M S2.9M S1.292M S1.326M S9.94M Whitefish Lake Seeleys Bay Cranberry Lake emerged Tuesday afternoon to confirm the clip had been taken Monday night, and that he had been drinking. The new video comes after repeated claims he has not touched drugs or alcohol since November, when he admitted to smoking crack cocaine. It shows the mayor rambling and swearing incoherently in Jamaican patois slang in a Toronto restaurant. "I was with some friends and what I do in my personal life, with my personal friends, that's up to me. This really has nothing to do with you guys" Ford told reporters Tuesday afternoon.

The mayor wouldn't address questions about his past claims he quit drinking. Chief Blair," Ford says at the start of the video. The video was posted to You-Tube Tuesday. "They chase me around for five months man bumbaciot," Ford then says in slurred words, using a Jamaican patois epithet His next few sentences are incomprehensible. A second video was also posted to YouTube purporting to show Ford sitting with Sandro Lisi at the same restaurant on Monday night Lisi was charged last year with extortion, relating to a video that appears to show Ford smoking crack cocaine.

WITH FILES FROM THE CANADIAN PRESS Upper Brewers Bridges That's far below the recommended 1.5 per cent annual "recapitalization rate for canals listed in Parks Canada's 2013 "assets at risk-budget proposal. The Rideau Canal, which connects Ottawa with Kingston, was carved out of bush and swampland by thousands of labourers under the direction of Col. John By between 1826 and 1832. It has been a National Historic Site of Canada since 1926 and was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2007. The canal is far from the only Parks Canada property in dire need of maintenance or repair.

Nationally, about 40 per cent of its assets are in poor condition and three per cent are in very poor condition, documents show. In one document, Parks Canada says underinvestment "has been a chronic issue for many years and has resulted in an exponential increase in the backlog of maintenance and recapitalization requirements." With the current estimated backlog at $2.9 billion nationwide, Parks Canada says it has identified asset management as a "key corporate risk." While its priority is to address potential risks to public safety, mostly related to the bridges, dams and roadways it manages, another priority is to address the "deteriorating condition" of cultural resources such as the Rideau Canal, it says. If not rectified soon, Parks Canada warns, that deterioration "will pose a real and significant risk to the achievement of our mandate which is to preserve and protect these special places for present and future generations." Here's a closer look at the Rideau Canal's status: ASSET CONDITION The 2012 asset review found that about 20 per cent of the canal's built assets were in poor or very poor condition and more than half were only in fair condition. The review listed two-thirds of the canal's 47 lift locks in fair condition. But it rated 13 nearly 28 per cent in poor condition, meaning one or more components require major interventions to "stabilize, consolidate, reinforce or reconstruct" them.

Just two locks are rated in good condition. WORST OF THE WORST Four canal assets are in fc Lower Brewers Hog's Back fixed bridge $3M Merrickville swing bridge $750,000 3 3: zr" Sum Kingston Mills swing onrjge I Kingston Mills Mngsion miiis tixea Driage i.srvr -vr i Dams and weirs Hog's Back dam and weirs I Long Island arch dam $843,000 Jones Falls arch dam hmimi a i mi St. Lawrence River KINGSTON SOOKCf GOOGLC.CA. and Cituen photo archive DENNIS LEUNG. THE OTTAWA CITIZEN on the Rideau Canal are seasonal.

IN THE WORKS Last September, Parks Canada launched a collaborative project with municipalities and partner organizations to develop new "experience concepts" for the Rideau Canal, designed to foster recreation, tourism and economic development Public consultations were held last fall and a report is in the works. Once it's released, interested parties will be asked to evaluate the ideas, identify areas for action and "start to make things happen," Parks Canada says, adding that it plans to unveil some of the new initiatives "in the coming months." dbutler aottawacitizen.com twitter.comBut lerDon the section of the canal's western wall from Laurier Avenue to the Pretoria Bridge. Its replacement value: $44.3 million. CANAL USE Boat traffic on the canal hit a modern-day low in 2013. The 56,750 recorded lockages were more than 2,000 fewer than the previous record low in 2004, when a strike by lock-masters disrupted operations.

In its email, Parks Canada suggested that weather and high gas prices might explain the low numbers. But some users say reduced hours, introduced last year, discouraged boaters from using the canal. Parks Canada has retained the same operating hours for 2014. The Rideau Canal also attracts many land-based visitors. A Parks Canada eco nomic impact study released under Access to Information found that, during the 2010 operational season, there were 785,758 land-based visitors to Rideau Canal lock stations.

Because many made repeat visits, the number of unique visitors was 187,472, the study reported. ECONOMIC IMPACT The Parks Canada study calculated that the Rideau Canal contributed $42.8 million in 2010 to Canada's gross domestic product More than two-thirds of that came from visitor spending. In total, the canal and its visitors produced more than $30 million in labour income for Ontario employees, supporting the equivalent of 641 full-time jobs. The actual number employed was much greater, however, because many jobs very poor condition, meaning they are "unsafe, unstable or unusable," the review found. On the list are an earth dam at Poonamalie lock station, a residence on Col.

By Island in Big Rideau Lake, a garage at Clowes lock station and the swing bridge at Chaffey's Lock, which needs $1.75 million in work. REPLACEMENT VALUE The replacement value of the canal's heritage assets is the estimated cost of reconstructing or replacing those assets with replicas. The replacement value of a single historic lock, in 2012 dollars, is $8.6 million, according to Parks Canada's asset review. The value is much higher more than $19 million for the combined hydraulic lock at Smiths Falls. The single costliest asset is 4 CHBISYOlJNu, THECiViDIANPHtSSrUE A new video posted Tuesday on YouTube raises questions about Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's pledge to not drink.

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