February 24, 2013

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CONTENTS OF THIS BLOG:

ARESST ACTION:

- CRD ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE MEETS 27 FEB

CRD-RELATED SEWAGE & RELATED NEWS:  

- ESQUIMALT'S PRIORITIES NOW INCLUDE SEWAGE PLANT & RESOURCE RECOVERY
- SAANICH PENINSULA WASTEWATER COMMISSION MEETS 21 FEB
- EXCITING DESIGN FOR SEWAGE PLANT - CARTOON

LETTERS: 

- TREATMENT PLANT WILL SIPHON TRANSIT CASH (Nonen)
- SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT COULD WORK ON WEST SHORE (Brett)
- SEND IN YOUR LETTERS!

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ARESST ACTION:

Note: CRD's Core Area Wastewater Treatment Committee continues their close in-camera meeting on 10:30am, 28 February at their new headquarters 510-1675 Douglas Street.

ARESST: CRD's ESC is related to CRD sewage committee activity, especially as "integrated resource management" is initiated. Also, final destination for biodigested sewage sludge could be Hartland  landfill (taking up room left vacated by the new "kitchen scraps" recycle program

CRD ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE MEETS 27 FEB

Meeting on Wednesday, February 27, 2013, at 9:30 am
Board Room, 6th floor, 625 Fisgard Street

MEMBERS 2013:
Chair: N. Jensen
Vice Chair: J. Mendum
V. Derman
D. Howe
B. Desjardins
W. Milne
D. Blackwell
J. Brownoff
D. Fortin
C. Hamilton
A. Bryson, Board Chair, ex-officio

AGENDA 27 FEB:

Click on Agenda item to get related Report: 

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CRD-RELATED SEWAGE & RELATED NEWS:  

ESQUIMALT'S PRIORITIES NOW INCLUDE SEWAGE PLANT & RESOURCE RECOVERY

At Esquimalt Council of the Whole meeting, 25 Feb, 7pm, staff report will be received on Strategic Priorities (Report No. ADM-13-009)


Updating Township Strategic Priorities 

On  January 26, 2013,  Council  and  the CAO held  a workshop  to  update  the Strategic Priorities 

Report. The workshop process involved  the following steps:
(1)  Reviewing  existing  Strategic Priorities Chart  to  determine which  items  can  be  removed as either completed or incorporated  into day-to-day operations. 

(2)  Reviewing  the  remaining  items  to  determine whether there  is  any change  in  priority due to  new information, changing  conditions or internal capacity issues. 

(3)  Identifying  current  and  emerging  issues  that  have  arisen  in  our  community  during  the past year, due to  changing external and  internal  influences, and  determine whether they should be  included as strategic priorities at this  time.
(4)  Determining  whether  items  are  "Council  Priorities"  (requiring  political  attention)  or "Operational Strategies" (to be dealt with by staff with Council 's oversight).
(5)  Assigning  responsibility for implementation of priorities to appropriate departments.
Strategic Priorities Chart 

The  preparation  of a  'Strategic  Priorities  Chart'  is  an  important  part  of  the  strategic  planning process  to  translate  plans  into  action  and  to  assign  responsibility  for  priorities  and  strategies
with  target dates for regular monitoring and updating.

The attached  updated Chart provides a summary of short-term matters requiring attention.  It will be used by staff to prepare a draft Budget and Financial Plan  for Council's consideration,  and  to develop  their work  program.

It  is  also  intended  that Council 's Advisory Committees will  ensure that their annual work  plans  are  focused  on  assisting  Council  and  staff achieve  these  strategic priorities. The Strategic Priorities Chart is a living document that should be  reviewed  regularly to
make adjustments, update priorities and celebrate achievements.

Highlights of the updated Strategic Priorities Chart  Highlights of the updated Strategic Priorities Chart

•  Waste Resource Management has been added as a Council priority, which  includes sewage treatment  plant,  resource  recovery,  kitchen  scraps,  and  solid waste management  including garbage collection and  landfill  issues.

(page 14)

http://www.esquimalt.ca/files/PDF/Agendas_and_Minutes/2013/2013_02_25_COTW_Agenda.pdf

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SAANICH PENINSULA WASTEWATER COMMISSION MEETS 21 FEB

Meeting on Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 9:15 am
Saanich Peninsula Treatment Plant Meeting Room, 
9055 Mainwaring Road, 
North Saanich

6. Saanich Peninsula Stormwater Monitoring Program (Staff Report ERP2013-06)
7. Thermal Energy Recovery System – Performance Optimization Plan (Staff Report SPWWC 2013-01)


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LETTERS: 


TREATMENT PLANT WILL SIPHON TRANSIT CASH (Nonen)

Victoria News
February 20, 2013
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Re: Area tourism stakeholders call for better bus service (News, Feb. 15)

If Tourism Victoria and the Chamber of Commerce are truly concerned about our public transportation infrastructure, they should drop their support for sewage treatment being forced upon Capital Region residents.

The vast amount of money saved could fund improved public transit that would benefit both tourists and residents.

Plus, our environmental gain would be exponentially greater than the sewage treatment that scientists and public health professionals continually tell us is simply not required.

Dave Nonen
Victoria

http://www.vicnews.com/opinion/letters/191933341.html

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SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT COULD WORK ON WEST SHORE (Brett)

Victoria News
February 14, 2013
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Chair Denise Blackwell and the Core Area Liquid Waster Management Committee recently agreed that they did not necessarily have the best plan and asked for ideas for any better strategies for the Capital Regional District.

Here’s a great one.

Albert Head, a federally owned property of more than 52 hectares has a “no restriction” land-use designation and would easily hold a secondary sewage treatment plant. Underwater, Albert Head is five to six kilometres from current pumping stations. By altering the direction of the current outflow pipes from south (to the straits) to west to the Albert Head peninsula, the controversial harbour entrance site, with its multiple risk factors, including the massive dig under the water of the harbour entrance, is eliminated.

Also eliminated is the need for 17 km of pressurized piping through parkland, municipal and residential land and infrastructure, to the barely adequate, time-limited Hartland landfill and back.

Albert Head is a wooded, remote acreage that allows room for on-site sludge treatment/disposal and is ideally located for the cleaned water dispersal into the straits.

Engineering would ensure the proper underwater pipe-pressure requirements are fitted, plus earthquake measures and damage prevention are installed.

Plans could allow for the future construction of a sewage treatment plant that would support further growth of the West Shore. The plans could also be designed for future innovation in the science of sewage disposal, whereby pharmaceuticals and heavy metals are removed and benefits to Metchosin are realized, by altering sewage for use as fertilizer in the crop industry in the rural ranch/farm municipality.

I believe this is a viable, cost-effective alternative using federal land effectively.

It would satisfy the many considerable complaints regarding poor land use; expensive, disruptive and massive construction; financial over-runs and future maintenance requirements for what soon could be obsolete sewage disposal practices.

Irene Brett
Esquimalt


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