Re: “Sewage plant could break ground next month: ‘Isn’t that something?’” March 7.
Great leadership and hard work pay off. We finally get scientifically proven, desperately needed sewage treatment.
As chair of the Capital Regional District sewage committee, Mayor Lisa Helps managed to stick to the facts.
Sewage, as the UN environmental department states, is extremely harmful to the ocean, and it stays in our local waters, just as a person who drowns usually resurfaces within 30 days in the area where they went down. Sorry, no magic outflow makes it mysteriously disappear.
Once the facts were proven, Helps worked with the province, Washington state, Vancouver and regional bodies to get consensus and come up with a great plan. Thanks to Helps and the committee, we keep the federal and provincial money, we save the local ocean, plus we beautify our city at Clover Point and along Dallas Road, all while we create jobs.
This is the type of leadership we have desperately needed in Victoria.
Gerald Hartwig
Victoria
