Re: “Opponents of CRD sewage plan offer a proposal of their own,” Oct. 25.
Hoorah to the RITE Plan.
Here, living in the “City of Gardens,” one of the greatest little cities in the world, it’s hard to believe we are actually planning to pump sewage from all over the area into an old-technology plant sited in the centre of our beautiful harbour, only to turn around and pump the resulting sludge 18 kilometres to a dump in the hinterland.
Surely, in an age of brilliant technical achievements and possibilities, only a conglomeration of bureaucratic flounderers could come up with such a questionable, constipated and vulnerable solution.
Sitting, as we do, on a fault line between active tectonic plates, with both earthquakes and tsunamis a distinct possibility, one would have thought the concept of dispersal would have been high on the list of considerations for the Capital Regional District planners. Instead, the main system is to be sited in about the most vulnerable location available.
As citizens of Greater Victoria, we should give short shrift to any provincial or federal government that would short-change us into building what is essentially a limited third-rate system, just to meet an arbitrary deadline.
If we must treat our sewage, by all means let us do so with the quality and vision demonstrated by Dockside Green and Brightwater, Wash., and build the best we can with dispersed plants employing gasification tertiary-treatment technology for both sewage and kitchen garbage. We owe nothing less to ourselves and future Victoria citizens.
Terry Milne
Victoria
