Re: “Province should help fix the mess,” editorial, July 17.
It is obvious that the Capital Regional District and local municipal governments, especially Esquimalt, are not going to be able to solve the sewage treatment plant on their own.
What is not apparent is whether all options for locating the treatment facility within the CRD have been examined.
Has the CRD asked its staff to consider combining the sewage treatment plant with the long overdue interchange at McKenzie Avenue-Admirals Road and the Trans-Canada Highway?
This possibility would allow for the design of the interchange to take into account the increased truck traffic that would be created by the treatment plant, build the desperately needed interchange to alleviate pressures on the Trans-Canada Highway, provide some of the energy requirements for Victoria General Hospital, Spectrum High School or a combination thereof and avoid the increased traffic that would be caused by putting the facility at Hartland.
This appears to be a win-win solution.
Robert Furry
Saanich
