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VICTORIA MAYOR FORTIN OPEN DOOR MEET 2 AUGUST, MAYOR'S OFFICE
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- Beth Burton-Krahn at 24 July CALWMC
- Fil Ferri at 24 July CALMAC
- Meagan Klassen at 24 July CALMAC
- David Langley at 24 July CALMAC
- Carole Witter at 24 July CALWMC
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- ATWELL ON CFAX 18 JULY
- Hitler Parody Video - CRDs Sewage Project Crisis
- VIDEO OF END OF LAST CALWMC MEETING
- Minutes from important CRD meeting include resolution officially ending Viewfield sludge plant site
CRD SEWAGE NEWS
- CTV covers the Thetis Cove site
- CTV Coverage of CRD meeting 24 July
- Greater Victoria sewage committee wants options for biosolids site
- Sludge facility at Hartland ‘insane’ — politicians push for alternative sites
- Frank Stanford comment about CRD sewage meeting 24 July
- Environment minister avoids taking role in sewage dispute
LETTERS
- Columnist’s opinion yet another knee-jerk reaction (Christianson)
- No sites on land for sewage plant (Durie)
- Go back to the sewage drawing board (Jubb)
- Sewage chickens will come home to roost (Langley)
- Sludge site is a waste of money (McBride)
- Sewage treatment issue can be tough to sort out (Oak)
- Clover Point could be sewage site (Robinson)
- SEND IN YOUR LETTERS!
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ACTIONS:
VICTORIA MAYOR FORTIN OPEN DOOR MEET 2 AUGUST, MAYOR'S OFFICE
9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Mayor's office at City Hall
No appointments are made in advance as it is on a "first come - first serve" basis. Citizens are given 10 minutes to discuss their issues privately with the Mayor.
Beth Burton-Krahn at 24 July CALWMC
July 24, 2013 CRD Video:
Beth came to the Core Area Liquid Waste Management Committee (CALWMC) and spoke from the heart about the process of engaging the residents who live near Hartland.
Agenda:
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Fil Ferri at 24 July CALMAC
July 24, 2013 CRD Video:
Fil Ferri came to the Core Area Liquid Waste Management Committee (CALWMC) and spoke about the mistakes from the past and the potential of repeating those mistakes going forward if changes are not made.
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Meagan Klassen at 24 July CALMAC
July 24, 2013 CRD Video:
Meagan Klassen came to the Core Area Liquid Waste Management Committee (CALWMC) and spoke about the CRD's consideration of trucking sludge through neighbourhoods.
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David Langley at 24 July CALMAC
July 24, 2013 CRD Video:
July 24, 2013 David Langley came to the Core Area Liquid Waste Management Committee (CALWMC) to tell the Directors that their report was missing some of the costs and the budget for pipeline failures shouldn't be in the millions and so exorbitantly high.
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Carole Witter at 24 July CALWMC
July 24, 2013 CRD Video:
Carole Witter came to the Core Area Liquid Waste Management Committee (CALWMC) to state that the time to pause this project is now, before it's too late.
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ATWELL ON CFAX 18 JULY
Richard:
Here's the audio from the CFAX Special I did on the sewage project. It was originally broadcast on Ian Jessop's show at 2:30pm on July 18:
http://stopabadplan.ca/media/
Length: 18 mins.
This was a lot of fun to do and has only scraped the surface of what's been hidden from the public.
The audio montage that opens the show is also available as a separate clip:
http://stopabadplan.ca/media/
The statements from the these directors is damning. It should have been a wake up call to the other directors but unfortunately their voices have been drowned out by those who have seen fit to allow external influences to drive the process.
http://stopabadplan.ca/media/
Length: 18 mins.
This was a lot of fun to do and has only scraped the surface of what's been hidden from the public.
The audio montage that opens the show is also available as a separate clip:
http://stopabadplan.ca/media/
The statements from the these directors is damning. It should have been a wake up call to the other directors but unfortunately their voices have been drowned out by those who have seen fit to allow external influences to drive the process.
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Hitler Parody Video - CRDs Sewage Project Crisis
Dave Ferguson
CHEK TV's coverage of the CRD sewage crisis parody video:
The video is so funny and really sums up the chaotic situation at the CRD (especially after Wednesday's gong show meeting) and it is a subtle reminder of the CRD's dictatorial style towards the public and especially to Esquimalt.
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VIDEO OF END OF LAST CALWMC MEETING
Previously, CRD Chair Alastair Bryson stated:
"...I have advised Vice Chair Blackwell that I have full confidence in the role and position she is serving in for the CRD and that I will not be asking for her resignation."
http://crd.bc.ca/media/2013-
Well, that was before last Wednesday that Bryson wasn't around to witness when the sewage committee meeting turned into a gong show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Why not send a link to this video to Alastair Bryson and ask him what he thinks about Denise Blackwell's performance now?
Her desire to rush this billion dollar project just because the meeting room is booked, her predilection for relying completely on staff for her decision making (her job is to provide oversight of them) and her lack of impartiality as committee chair is blatant and obvious.
Address the video to:
CRD Chair Alastair Bryson
crdchair@crd.bc.ca
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Minutes from important CRD meeting include resolution officially ending Viewfield sludge plant site
http://www.crd.bc.ca/minutes/capitalregionaldistr_/2013_/20130703minutesrb/20130703minutesrb.pdf
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CRD SEWAGE NEWS
CTV covers the Thetis Cove site
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CTV Coverage of CRD meeting 24 July
CTV's Erin Glazier covers yesterday's Core Area Liquid Waste "Mismanagement" Committee meeting.
http://youtu.be/64Cd_qAfUrs
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http://youtu.be/64Cd_qAfUrs
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Greater Victoria sewage committee wants options for biosolids site
Kyle Wells
Victoria News
July 25, 2013
A last-minute uprising at a Capital Regional District committee meeting will result in staff taking another look at alternatives to the Hartland Landfill for a biosolids energy centre.
As chair Denise Blackwell tried to wrap up a core area management committee meeting Wednesday, a late push led by Esquimalt Mayor Barbara Desjardins resulted in a significant change to the CRD's direction.
While staff are still moving towards public consultation for the use of the Saanich-based regional landfill as the location for the sewage sludge plant, the motion means staff will once again be looking at alternatives. This comes after the CRD abandoned a proposal earlier this month to build the plant on Viewfield Road in Esquimalt.
Blackwell tried to rule the motion out of order due to time concerns, but enough committee members rallied in its favour to have it brought forward and carried.
"I wasn't trying to block anybody from speaking," she said afterward, "although as the chair I have to be conscious of the time and the fact that another meeting is about to take place."
Blackwell believes the original motion was appropriate and disagrees with prolonging the process with another search for an alternative site.
"Given what happened in Esquimalt, even if we did find another site that was closer in, I think we would have the same difficulties," she said. "The plan is the plan. We need to get on with it."
For her part, Desjardins said there was "considerable discomfort" with the committee endorsing Hartland.
"The sentiment around the table was quite strong that Hartland is really not an ideal site," she said.
Moving forward with public consultation over Hartland is not the issue, Desjardins added, but having it as the only option is.
Desjardins' concerns with Hartland stem from its distance from the proposed wastewater treatment facility at McLoughlin Point and the potential dangers associated with pumping materials the 18 kilometres to the Saanich site.
"There's a significant risk," she said. "The whole idea of having two sites so far away is probably not the best use of taxpayers' money."
Saanich councillor and committee member Judy Brownoff said enough is enough and it's time to move forward with a plan that has been in the works since 2006. She had to leave the meeting before the vote, but disagrees with the decision to prolong the process.
"We had looked at over 16 sites in the region. So it's not like we weren't looking," Brownoff said. "Tell me where a site is. I want a municipality to put up its hand and say 'You know what? We'll take that site.' And that's just not going to happen."
Issues such as the distance to pump to Hartland have been thoroughly investigated and resolved, said Brownoff, the former chair of the committee. If energy is spent looking into anything, she said, it should be gasification – developing technology to use organic waste to produce energy. Hartland was an industry leader for doing a similar process with garbage.
Treatment plant site needs addressing, too
With Esquimalt council having recently rejected the CRD's rezoning request for the treatment plant on McLoughlin Point, staff from Esquimalt and CRD need to meet to hash out a new plan.
CRD liquid waste management committee chair Denise Blackwell believes the two parties may have to ask the provincial ministry of environment to help facilitate the discussion.
"My understanding was our staff is going to contact their staff and try to set something up," Blackwell said. "We have to come to some kind of agreement. I think it's really important to make McLoughlin work. What other site would there be?"
Environment Minister Mary Polak has said the issue should be solved at the local level.
reporter@vicnews.com
July 25, 2013
A last-minute uprising at a Capital Regional District committee meeting will result in staff taking another look at alternatives to the Hartland Landfill for a biosolids energy centre.
As chair Denise Blackwell tried to wrap up a core area management committee meeting Wednesday, a late push led by Esquimalt Mayor Barbara Desjardins resulted in a significant change to the CRD's direction.
While staff are still moving towards public consultation for the use of the Saanich-based regional landfill as the location for the sewage sludge plant, the motion means staff will once again be looking at alternatives. This comes after the CRD abandoned a proposal earlier this month to build the plant on Viewfield Road in Esquimalt.
Blackwell tried to rule the motion out of order due to time concerns, but enough committee members rallied in its favour to have it brought forward and carried.
"I wasn't trying to block anybody from speaking," she said afterward, "although as the chair I have to be conscious of the time and the fact that another meeting is about to take place."
Blackwell believes the original motion was appropriate and disagrees with prolonging the process with another search for an alternative site.
"Given what happened in Esquimalt, even if we did find another site that was closer in, I think we would have the same difficulties," she said. "The plan is the plan. We need to get on with it."
For her part, Desjardins said there was "considerable discomfort" with the committee endorsing Hartland.
"The sentiment around the table was quite strong that Hartland is really not an ideal site," she said.
Moving forward with public consultation over Hartland is not the issue, Desjardins added, but having it as the only option is.
Desjardins' concerns with Hartland stem from its distance from the proposed wastewater treatment facility at McLoughlin Point and the potential dangers associated with pumping materials the 18 kilometres to the Saanich site.
"There's a significant risk," she said. "The whole idea of having two sites so far away is probably not the best use of taxpayers' money."
Saanich councillor and committee member Judy Brownoff said enough is enough and it's time to move forward with a plan that has been in the works since 2006. She had to leave the meeting before the vote, but disagrees with the decision to prolong the process.
"We had looked at over 16 sites in the region. So it's not like we weren't looking," Brownoff said. "Tell me where a site is. I want a municipality to put up its hand and say 'You know what? We'll take that site.' And that's just not going to happen."
Issues such as the distance to pump to Hartland have been thoroughly investigated and resolved, said Brownoff, the former chair of the committee. If energy is spent looking into anything, she said, it should be gasification – developing technology to use organic waste to produce energy. Hartland was an industry leader for doing a similar process with garbage.
Treatment plant site needs addressing, too
With Esquimalt council having recently rejected the CRD's rezoning request for the treatment plant on McLoughlin Point, staff from Esquimalt and CRD need to meet to hash out a new plan.
CRD liquid waste management committee chair Denise Blackwell believes the two parties may have to ask the provincial ministry of environment to help facilitate the discussion.
"My understanding was our staff is going to contact their staff and try to set something up," Blackwell said. "We have to come to some kind of agreement. I think it's really important to make McLoughlin work. What other site would there be?"
Environment Minister Mary Polak has said the issue should be solved at the local level.
reporter@vicnews.com
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Sludge facility at Hartland ‘insane’ — politicians push for alternative sites
ROB SHAW
TIMES COLONIST
JULY 24, 2013
Under tentative plans, a facility at McLoughlin Point in Esquimalt would treat wastewater, then send result ing sludge to a second facility that might process it into fuel or fertilizer. Photograph by: ADRIAN LAM, Times Colonist
A Greater Victoria sewage meeting devolved into procedural chaos Wednesday after politicians refused to finalize the “insane” option of a sludge facility at Hartland landfill.
A majority of politicians on the Capital Regional District’s sewage committee overruled chairwoman Denise Blackwell’s efforts to end the meeting, and instead rammed through an order for staff to research alternatives to Hartland.
“The whole idea of doing biosolids treatment at Hartland is insane,” Colwood Coun. Judith Cullington told the committee. “It has always been insane. We put it on the table because it was the only feasible site we had out there.”
Hartland is the default option for a biosolid sludge treatment site, after furious residents forced the CRD to back away last month from a site on Viewfield Road in Esquimalt.
Under tentative plans, a facility at McLoughlin Point in Esquimalt would treat wastewater, then send resulting sludge to a second facility that might process it into fuel or fertilizer.
CRD staff had asked politicians to select Hartland, and begin consultations with nearby Saanich residents. Politicians backed consultations, but altered the wording of a motion to say Hartland was “one possible” location.
Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins tried to pass a motion directing staff to continue to search for alternative locations, but Blackwell ruled it out of order and tried to end the meeting due to time constraints.
“Oh my lord,” cried Desjardins. “We don’t have time? That’s horrendous.”
Victoria Coun. Ben Isitt challenged Blackwell’s ruling, and rallied enough politicians to defeat the chairwoman. A majority then backed Desjardins’ motion to look for additional sites.
Many CRD members spoke against Hartland as the default location for sludge. An 18-kilometre pipe would be required to connect Hartland with McLoughlin Point.
“For me, this fails the common-sense test completely,” said Victoria Coun. Marianne Alto. “I cannot imagine being able to make the argument … that creating a pumping system that goes 18 kilometres up hill makes sense.”
There are better locations, and it’s foolish to choose the worst, Alto said.
Several politicians grew visibly angry after sewage- treatment project director Jack Hull said companies that might build the project are unlikely to look for alternate sludge sites as part of any innovation in the request-for-proposals process.
“We thought somewhere along the way … that we were looking for innovation,” Desjardins said. “We didn’t get there. It’s not there. We thought we were putting it in the RFP. It’s not there. We are getting more and more stuck with what we’ve got.
“Hartland was never the best site. It was never a good site. It was a placeholder.”
Saanich Coun. Vic Derman chastized the CRD for failing to research gasification for sludge, which could lower costs and allow a smaller site than Hartland. Hull said gasification is not proven technology.
The CRD has drifted far from the values the province asked it to achieve when it ordered sewage treatment, said View Royal Mayor Graham Hill. “I get really frustrated when I think of what we’re doing here, which is designing a system by expedience.”
It remains unclear if any actual alternative to Hartland exists. The CRD board voted against investigating property in the Agricultural Land Reserve, and Saanich Coun. Leif Wergeland said “maybe with that decision we wiped out 99 per cent of our options.”
The CRD has spent years researching sites for sewage treatment, with its options never made public.
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Frank Stanford comment about CRD sewage meeting 24 July
Frank Stanford
CFAX
July 25, 2013
A particularly fractious meeting of the regional board's "Core Area Liquid Waste Management Committee"...the sewage treatment committee...leaves me wondering if a simple majority ought to rule on matters of such import.
It was Graham Hill who very pointedly drew attention to the fact the vote was 7-6, on a motion to begin the application process in Saanich for the zoning to allow use of a portion of the Hartland landfill property for bio-solids treatment.
A negative vote would have forced the region to get serious about finding some better alternative. Hill didn't say it in so many words but he's drawn into sharp focus the fact there is no consensus on this three quarter billion dollar project. I think it's fair to ask: is that good enough? Isn't it possible that one of the seven has got it wrong? and should that be enough to send the whole thing back to square one? More and more Directors are acknowledging that the public is losing confidence in the process.
The other discomforting element to yesterday's meeting is the fact that debate was limited by the clock. Committee Chair Denise Blackwell found herself reminding members several times that it was a two hour meeting, with several other items on the agenda, and that the room was booked for another committee immediately afterwards. One wonders what the CRD is doing that's more important than fulsome debate on a three-quarter billion dollar project.
I must say, in fairness, that I'm not unbiased. I think the Hartland solution is madness. I said that a year ago. As to whether the CRD has done enough work to find alternatives, obviously I don't think so.
This is Frank Stanford
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Environment minister avoids taking role in sewage dispute
ROB SHAW
TIMES COLONIST
JULY 22, 2013
Environment Minister Mary Polak Photograph by: DARREN STONE, Times Colonist
B.C.’s environment minister remains unwilling to get involved in Greater Victoria’s sewage treatment dispute, after meeting with the Capital Regional District and Esquimalt on Monday.
Both sides argued their case to the minister at the legislature but left without persuading her to wade into the disagreement over a treatment plant at McLoughlin Point in Esquimalt.
“It’s our aim to have the parties back together and discussing how they can move forward,” Polak told the Times Colonist.
“We are going to give them every kind of assistance we can, but it’s important for this decision to made at their level and not to have the province interfere.”
The CRD’s $783-million sewage treatment plan calls for a secondary treatment plant at McLoughlin Point. However, Esquimalt council this month refused to pass the CRD’s rezoning bylaw to allow the plant’s construction.
Instead, the township passed its own bylaw, which calls for more amenities from the CRD, including a public park and annual cash payments into an amenity fund, before allowing the plant.
The CRD has said several of Esquimalt’s demands, such as cash payments in exchange for rezoning, may be illegal and it won’t comply.
Polak has the power to override Esquimalt’s zoning and force the plant but has said she won’t do so.
“I don’t see any need for us to be coming in with a heavy hand at this point,” Polak said.
“Certainly one of the things that’s become clear is that, for some, the discussion around McLoughlin Point has really been more of a discussion around the overall [sewage treatment] plan itself.
“It’s important to emphasize for people, the plan is no longer in question. The plan is the plan. And it will remain. What is to be discussed is the issue of location, and we’re trying to get the parties to focus on that.”
There is some flexibility on provincial timelines and the government’s one-third share of the sewage project budget, but the CRD is still required to meet a 2020 federal deadline for treatment, Polak said.
The CRD asked the government “to please provide us with some advice on next steps,” said vice-chairwoman Denise Blackwell, who attended the meeting with chairman Alastair Bryson.
“We made the position that if we had to comply with Esquimalt’s extra [rezoning] request, then we’d certainly be looking to the province for additional money to accomplish that, because there’s only so much money in the plan,” Blackwell said.
“[Polak] said she understands there’s no additional money floating around.”
Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins also met with Polak, as well as Community, Sport and Cultural Development Minister Coralee Oakes at the legislature on Monday.
“The ministers were very good in listening to us and certainly are supportive of the CRD and ourselves having some dialogue,” Desjardins said.
Desjardins said it’s good for Esquimalt that the province won’t wade into the issue and automatically back the CRD in the zoning dispute, and she expects to start negotiating with the CRD soon.
rshaw@timescolonist.com
http://www.timescolonist.com/
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More July 15, 2013 Esquimalt Council Video:
After the bylaws were debated, Councillor Tim Morrison introduced a motion to request the provincial and federal governments to:
1) Place all funding agreements for the CRD sewage project on hold
2) Order the CRD to halt their RFP released on July 12, 2013
3) Order complete independent audit of CRD sewage project, environmental impact assessment, socio-economic impact assessment (considering highest and best use of McLoughlin Pt).
Passed unanimously by council.
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LETTERS
Columnist’s opinion yet another knee-jerk reaction (Christianson)
Victoria News
July 26, 2013
Re: CRD losing ground in sewage debate (Simon Nattrass, July 19)
Nattrass opines that flushing raw sewage, detergents, road runoff, antibiotics and other chemicals into the Strait of Juan de Fuca is a bad idea.
This is the mindset that is driving us down the road to spending billions of unnecessary dollars. The poop-into-ocean-equals-bad attitude is a knee-jerk reaction not based on science.
In our location it is much better for our planet and our local environment to send our nutrients into the ocean, rather than creating a land-based source of sludge that we then have to deal with. Maybe a fish farm would buy it?
As for detergents, pharmaceuticals and other chemicals, I agree we should do something about that, but the currently proposed treatment plan won’t do it. I’m not sure the technology exists to do that yet. And road runoff? That is the storm drain system and doesn’t even belong in this discussion.
Please, please, please, can we get a firm scientific backing before we make the decision to spend a bunch of money now, then a bunch more every year to support this wrong-headed plan.
Mr. Nattrass, I challenge you to look more deeply into this issue rather than go along with the knee-jerk reaction and further our journey down a road that will cost us all a lot of money, but will actually hurt the environment.
Ed Christianson
Colwood
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No sites on land for sewage plant (Durie)
TIMES COLONIST
JULY 28, 2013
Re: “Hartland sludge site ‘insane’: politicians,” July 25.
It is becoming apparent to everyone that there are no feasible sites for onshore disposal of sewage sludge without significant environmental consequences.
Surely the only reasonable solution is to take the sludge by barge out into the ocean and dump it where it would add valuable nutrients to the marine environment.
Robert W. Durie
Victoria
http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/letters/no-sites-on-land-for-sewage-plant-1.562251
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Go back to the sewage drawing board (Jubb)
TIMES COLONIST
JULY 28, 2013
Re: “Hartland sludge site ‘insane’: politicians,” July 25.
From Mr. Floatie to Denise Blackwell. What a long, strange trip it’s been. But the wheels are off the bus, now.
I have never been an advocate for the new treatment system (just not needed), but what a fiasco. If the Capital Regional District had engineered this to fail they couldn’t have done a better job. (A bit expensive, though, at $50 million and counting, and absolutely nothing to show for it.)
The CRD has been thoroughly discredited. It’s time to clear the decks (fire Blackwell and anyone else directly responsible for the current mess), go back to the drawing board and try to get it right this time, with actual public input before anything is decided or purchased.
Referendums should be mandatory.
Joe Jubb
Victoria
http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/letters/go-back-to-the-sewage-drawing-board-1.562249
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Sewage chickens will come home to roost (Langley)
TIMES COLONIST
JULY 28, 2013
Re: “Hartland sludge site ‘insane’: politicians,” July 25.
The Capital Regional District has decided to begin consultations on the Hartland site with nearby residents. There are no residents within 1.2 kilometres of the site.
To get sludge to the Hartland site requires 18 km of pipeline and four pump stations. CRD engineers and consultants have assessed “transmission risks” (very nasty surprises) at $300 per day per km of pipe and $600 per day per pump station. That works out to about $57 million of potential devastation over 20 years along the sludge-pipe corridor.
To mix metaphors, if you build a house with the washing machine in the basement and the clothes dryer in the attic, the chickens will come home to roost.
David Langley
Saanich
http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/letters/sewage-chickens-will-come-home-to-roost-1.562248
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- Note that current system effluent is 99.7% water, so "biosludge" isn't created.
Sludge site is a waste of money (McBride)
TIMES COLONIST
JULY 26, 2013
Re: “Hartland sludge site ‘insane’: politicians,” July 25.
The main insanity here is the unnecessary process that creates sludge.
Currently, biosludge is harmlessly diffused into the active ocean currents south of Victoria.
More money to be spent on seeking an alternative site is more money down the sewer.
John McBride
Saanich
http://www.timescolonist.com/
Sludge site is a waste of money (McBride)
TIMES COLONIST
JULY 26, 2013
Re: “Hartland sludge site ‘insane’: politicians,” July 25.
The main insanity here is the unnecessary process that creates sludge.
Currently, biosludge is harmlessly diffused into the active ocean currents south of Victoria.
More money to be spent on seeking an alternative site is more money down the sewer.
John McBride
Saanich
http://www.timescolonist.com/
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Victoria News
July 26, 2013
Re: CRD losing ground in sewage debate (Simon Nattrass, July 19)
Our sewage treatment issue is a thorny one, no doubt. I have struggled with coming to a definite view. Apparently the same can be said of Mr. Nattrass, who, in last week’s ‘opinion piece’ ventures no detectable opinion.
I probed in vain for the sweet core of this jelly donut. He offered nothing but rhetorical dough.
Tom Oak
Victoria
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Clover Point could be sewage site (Robinson)
TIMES COLONIST
JULY 28, 2013
Re: “Hartland sludge site ‘insane’: politicians,” July 25.
I agree, this whole idea of sewage treatment and sludge-processing seems to be confusing and perhaps insane. But if we must have it, here is another possibility.
There is land available near the Clover Point sewage facility to accommodate wastewater treatment and treat the sludge. With some creative engineering, the whole complex could be underground between Dallas Road and the cliff. Building on the bedrock will ensure its survival during earthquakes.
A rubble breakwater similar to what was done at Ross Bay could reshape the beach and protect the shoreline from the westerly storms. Then you would cover everything, plant some grass on the roof and rebuild the walking path.
So far, there is little appetite from taxpayers wanting this in their neighbourhood, but this location offers a combined facility on land that is available and can be hidden from view, which is more than we can say for anything perched at the entrance to our beautiful harbour at McLoughlin Point.
Dennis Robinson
Victoria
http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/letters/clover-point-could-be-sewage-site-1.562243
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