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Peninsula residents don’t fund core-area sewage

Re: “Peninsula tax money offered to Esquimalt,” letter, July 13.

Re: “Peninsula tax money offered to Esquimalt,” letter, July 13.

The letter-writer, a Brentwood Bay resident, states: “This year we will pay the Capital Regional District $2,100 in property taxes, which reflects the cost of building and operating the treatment plant. And now the CRD Board, under the leadership of our mayor, wants to take part of our tax payment and give it to residents of Esquimalt so they won’t have to pay for building a sewage treatment plant.”

This is absolutely not the case. The municipalities of Victoria, Saanich, Oak Bay, Esquimalt, View Royal, Colwood and Langford, collectively, are participants of the Core Area Liquid Waste Management Service which is managed and operated by the CRD in accordance with the core area liquid waste management plan. It is only those municipalities previously listed that would fund the offer to Esquimalt, not Peninsula taxpayers. Peninsula taxpayers fund only the Saanich Peninsula Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Alastair Bryson,

Chairman, Capital Regional District