The Twelve | St. Paul Crescent Truss Bridge

This recording mixes audio recorded on and in the water below the old truss bridge on St. Paul Crescent (long closed to vehicular traffic), just south of the higher Burgoyne Bridge. Beneath it flows the Twelve Mile Creek, just north of the confluence of Dick’s Creek and the Twelve. Dick’s Creek is named for Richard Pierpoint, a significant person in Ontario Black history and Twelve Mile is named for the distance of its mouth from the Niagara River. A section of Dick’s was buried with the construction of the Highway 406 Extension, which opened in 1984, and surfaces barely east of the confluence. The highway runs perpendicular and just east to the truss bridge and is the source of the traffic sound. I lowered a hydrophone from the bridge into the Twelve. The current here is very strong and controlled by Ontario Power Generation further upstream on the Twelve.