If you have sailed around the Toronto islands this year will have seen a large rectangular area near Gibraltar Point filled with low red markers.  These marks are only 1 or 2 feet out of the water and although there appears to be hundreds of them, they are difficult to see until you are nearly among them.  The southern boundary is marked with 2 larger white marks. 
 
Enwave, the company that cools downtown buildings with cold lake water, explained that these marks are guides for their people to use while they inspect the 3 large pipes that carry the cold lake water to the city.  The marks are only there temporarily and will be removed in a few weeks.  He also said that they are not dangerous in any way (although you would not want to foul your boat's propeller or rudder with the lines attached to these markers). 
 
While it makes sense to heed the recommendation of the Police and to go around them, if you should find yourself in the middle of them, you can feel secure that Enwave did not place anything solid under water that can be hit by your keel.

(Just sticks, no stones!)

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