Sewage treatment a backward step

 

 
 
 

Mayor Dean Fortin says that Victoria should have a land-based sewage treatment plant because that is just what people do in this century. This reasoning ignores the fact that the existing natural system is better than what can be achieved with land-based systems.

A land-based system has to be constructed, which produces greenhouse gases and other pollution. Then the treatment plants have to be operated. The solids get trucked around and solid waste has to be incinerated or dealt with in some other way. These all produce more greenhouse gases and other pollution.

The existing system has the lowest environmental impact possible.

Duane Lecky

Victoria

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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