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No end in sight for sewage treatment planning

Funding concerns for sewage treatment are looming and more planning is underway. This week, the westside solutions group is preparing for roundtable discussions on western treatment options throughout March and April.
Funding concerns for sewage treatment are looming and more planning is underway. This week, the westside solutions group is preparing for roundtable discussions on western treatment options throughout March and April.

The following World Café approach will be used: “A complex nexus that includes elements of process itself, philosophical thinking both historic and recent, a lexicon of new language, emergent social behaviors, etc.” that leads to “the hope of greening the landscape of ideas.”

At some distant moment beyond April, it is hoped an agreed western treatment scheme will rise from the green landscape of ideas like a well-fertilized rose.

The ruminating eastern group is believed to be heading for a secret cave high in Uplands where the classic Delphic oracle process will begin to divine the best eastside treatment option. When the planets are properly aligned, the eastside scheme will roll out of the cave. A design competition will begin for a new Seaterra logo based on a pair of perfectly entwined roses.

Can these happy hopes come true? The Capital Regional District sewage committee is starting a new review of all the treatment technologies under the sun. If, in several months, the technology-review findings do not support the westside and eastside dreams, what then?

The only certainty is that regional taxpayers will suffer grievously as the ever-expanding planning for sewage treatment enters its ninth year. No end is in sight.

David Langley

Saanich