In a Tim Hortons in the center of Hamilton, drivers intend to obtain their double doubles in the morning, brave the murky waters of the parking lot, while the splash waves reach as high as their car bumpers.
Welcome to the “Timmicaca Lake”, perhaps the most iconic and persistent puddle of Hamilton.
In John Street S. and Jackson Street E., the body of water has formed for years with the spring mel and during the downpours in the summer months. The impressive pool that sits on a sewerage grid has inspired the photographers, recorders and users of Reddit. Some others, including Tim Hortons customers with whom Hamilton spoke this week, call him “atrocious.”
“He feels very Hamilton,” said Max Rose Begg Goodis. “It is definitely an iconic visual, a notable milestone.”
Goodis believes that it is the first to find the name of Lake Timmicaca.
As a theater, Goodis used to make a vocal warming that included the word “Titicaca”, the catchy name of a royal lake in the mountains of the Andes of Peru and Bolivia.
She thinks that is why “Timmicaca” appeared in her head when she went through the striking basin on her usual walk to work around 2017.
She told her friends and co -workers on Lake Timmicaca, and finally extended to Reddit, the popular online discussion board, as the infamy of the puddle grew.
“As a city, we are very competent with … rotating stories that may not be completely positive in something that is healthy, or with a comic meal, or as a Hamilton legend,” he said.
‘Brutal and beautiful peanut’
The Timmicaca Lake goes through different spelling: the Timicaca Lake and the Timmycaca Lake, but CBC Hamilton has stayed with the double “M” and the “I” as Goodis imagined.
It has also been described in the Hamilon Sub Reddit as a sixth great lake.
After driving through him to park his car on Wednesday, Dwayne Waldron regular Tim called “brutal and beautiful peanut.”
Peanut is derived from the Latin word “cacare” which means “defecate.”
Local photographer David Fillion captured the Timmicaca Lake during a sunset in 2023. The resulting impression has been “very popular” in Art Crawl, the city’s monthly street festival. “It stands out for people,” he said.
The residents of Hamilton, Matt and Dan Jelly, of the art and photos impressions, Jelly Bros, made an illustration of “beautiful Timmycaca lake, the largest inner sea in Hamilton” a little over a year ago.
“I have been aware of the people who call it for years and always laugh when the mass pond was passed and via the mass that never seems to disappear,” Matt told CBC Hamilton. “We are still not clear why it exists, or why it continues to exist, but the way in which the community has made it a local interior joke is quite fun.”
Harrison Wheeler, who frequents Tim Hortons, described the Timmicaca Lake as “absolutely atrocious.” At the same time, he would like to see the Tim Hortons commission a mural next to the adjacent building that commemorates the puddle, he said.
“Welcome to Lake Horton,” the mural suggested, he says.
Tim Hortons’ companion, Michelle Korzak, agreed.
“They should attract attention to that,” he said. “If they fix it, it would be shocking.”
Private Property Problem, says City
The city of Hamilton said in a statement that the municipal infrastructure of water and wastewater in the area is working well, and the problem is in private property.
After receiving complaints, the Statutes Department said it is actively investigating and working with the Property Administration Group to address the puddle “as quickly as possible.” He didn’t say when the complaints began.
The statute of city ownership standards requires catwalks, tickets and courtyards are maintained and can be passed safely, said the city statement. There is also a statute that requires that the owners make sure that stagnant water does not accumulate between April 1 and October 31 to avoid the spread of the western Nile virus.
As for why the waters of Lake Timmicaca have been allowed to refuse and flow for years, the city did not provide an answer before the publication.
The land in which the parking lot is located was purchased in 1988 by “Tim Donut Limited” for $ 500,000, according to a search in the Properties Registry. That corporation was finally transferred to the TDL Group Ltd., the licensing company for Tim Hortons.
Tim Hortons did not respond to comments requests.
Goodis said that over the years he has seen repairs to the sewer grid under the Timmicaca lake.
“But nothing seems to really send it forever,” he said. “You want to persist.”
