Re: “Hartland sludge site ‘insane’: politicians,” July 25.
The devil is in the details.
The Capital Regional District’s narrow focus on a centralized sewage treatment plan is why we are seeing so much resistance to this plan.
I was opposed to the Viewfield site and I have a problem with the McLoughlin site. I also fully understand the angst now being felt by those who live around Thetis Cove. But don’t assume I am opposed to sewage treatment. It’s just the type of treatment and the plan being proposed by the CRD that so many of us informed citizens are against.
The CRD should show us a smaller Dockside Green approach, with the facility buried underground, water features and trails above ground, resource-recovery benefits to the surrounding community with appropriate development integrated into the plan generating tax revenue for each host community. Then I will show you neighbourhoods welcoming sewage treatment with open arms.
The conversation needs to move away from one big centralized dinosaur that nobody wants in their backyard to a modern and visionary distributed system that is an asset to host communities.
Plain and simple.
Willy Carere
Saanich
