Time to rethink entire sewage plan
Dr. Jack Littlepage, Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria
Jack L. Littlepage, Times Colonist, July 27, 2010
If anyone in Victoria doubts that the CRD is hopelessly mired in sewage they need only to read the report of last week’s CRD committee meeting.
View Royal Mayor Graham Hill summed it up by saying too many of the CRD’s decisions are being driven by funding, not poop. Read More…
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Whatever It Takes! - Esquimalt residents ready to fight CRD’s sewage treatment plan
Esquimalt Review, Tim Morrison, July 27
Outrage at Esquimalt Chambers towards CRD
It was standing room only as more than a hundred local concerned residents packed in to Council Chambers to express their outrage, frustrations, and constructive input in response to the Capital Regional District’s hasty decision to locate the CRD’s new centralized sewage treatment plant at McLouglin Point in Esquimalt.
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Look back for guidance on sewage treatment
Chris Garett, PhD
Letter from Dr. Chris Garrett, Times Colonist, 11 July 2010
In September 1994, the B.C./Washington marine science panel released its report, based on the input of dozens of marine scientists on both sides of the border. The report listed priorities for the protection of our shared waters, while finding the impact of Victoria’s sewage discharge is negligible. Read More…
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What Authorities on Victoria’s Sewage Have to Say (click to view)
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| Dr. Keith Martin, MP | Dr. Chris Garett | Dr. Shaun Peck, MD |
The Issue
CFAX polls (23-Apr-08 and 13-Mar-10) have shown that Victorians are strongly divided on the sewage treatment issue. We believe the public involvement process has been biased and carefully managed to conceal decisions that had already been made; decisions to fund an incredibly costly sewage treatment plan that is not going to do what the CRD would have us think it will do:
- It will do nothing to improve the health of our ocean environment
- It will do little to prevent trace amounts of chemicals and pharmaceuticals from entering the ocean
- It will not result in the removal of the Macaulay and Clover Point outfalls
- It will not change shellfish closures in waters off Victoria
- It will do nothing to address the more serious storm water contamination
What it will do:
- It will generate a concentrated sludge with expensive and complex disposal problems
- It will close the door to resource recovery from sewage
- It will increase greenhouse gas production
- It will discourage new developments from adopting green technologies, such as Dockside Green
- It will discourage the adoption of new technologies to deal with trace chemicals and pharmaceuticals
- It will siphon away $1 Billion from Education, Health Care, Social Services, Urban Renewal…
- We will be paying for this system through reduced services, higher taxes and rents ..for generations
We invite citizens of the CRD to join us in urging the CRD and BC governments to choose the option the majority of people want: to stop the project. Join ARESST and get involved!
Where is the Mandate?
Brian Burchill
March 25, 2010
Is the billion$ boondoggle sewage project based on a phantom mandate? Committee member Vic Derman knows there isn’t such a mandate…..READ MORE…..
Convictions We Hold in Common
- Victoria should have an integrated waste-water management system which deals with sewage and storm-water in the manner best suited to the local environment.
- The system should be based upon sound science and engineering, presenting well thought-out solutions to clearly identified problems in a cost-efficient manner.
- The deadline-driven plans being promoted by the CRD do not meet these criteria; hundreds of millions are being wasted on inappropriate solutions to non-existent problems while the real threats to our environment are ignored – all at a time of severe fiscal constraints.
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