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Poll: What do you think of the report $1.2 billion Dollar sewage treatment cost. (77 member(s) have cast votes)

What do you think of the report $1.2 billion Dollar sewage treatment cost.

  1. We need it and waited too long that is the cost of waiting too long! (65 votes [23.47%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 23.47%

  2. Local, Provincial, and Federal politicians will find a way to help cut down the price to property owners. (3 votes [1.08%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 1.08%

  3. Out of the question, too expensive for Greater Victoria. (122 votes [44.04%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 44.04%

  4. It expensive, but if we do nothing costs will only rise. (20 votes [7.22%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 7.22%

  5. We need to do it but greatly scale back the project. It has grwon out of hand. (34 votes [12.27%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 12.27%

  6. No opinion, I do not know enough about the project to say of the costs are out of line or not. (33 votes [11.91%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 11.91%

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#4981 JohnN

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Posted 07 May 2017 - 05:10 AM

Patrick Wolfe letter in TC (letters@timescolonist.com) today, excerpt:
 
The rationale for the B.C. government’s 2006 order to the CRD to create a plan for land-based sewage treatment was refuted soon after by marine scientists, and the order has been without scientific merit ever since. This is why scientists and public-health officials have repeatedly decried “a massive public expenditure for which no measurable benefit has been identified.”
 

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#4982 JohnN

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Posted 11 May 2017 - 08:20 AM

Letter in TC today, "Sewage project an abuse of government power": http://www.timescolo...ower-1.19399137

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#4983 JohnN

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Posted 13 May 2017 - 05:20 AM

Note that current marine-based sewage treatment system produces NO sludge! 

 

Excerpt:

Saanich Mayor Richard Atwell told directors that the CRD board had
“handcuffed” itself by agreeing to turn the project over to the
project board.

The flashpoint for his frustration was the project board’s proposal to
deal with sewage sludge, the leftovers from sewage treatment. The
provincially approved plan calls for sewage sludge to be piped about
18 kilometres from the plant to be built at McLoughlin Point to
Hartland Landfill.

 

CRD directors ‘handcuffed’ on sludge ideas, Saanich mayor says: 
http://www.timescolo...says-1.19712764


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#4984 North Shore

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Posted 13 May 2017 - 08:02 AM

^  perhaps I'm quibbling over semantics (what, exactly, is sludge?)  but, AFAIK, the current system screens the pipes before proceeding to the outfall.  The product of that screening is landfillable sludge, no?


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Posted 13 May 2017 - 08:32 AM

^  perhaps I'm quibbling over semantics (what, exactly, is sludge?)  but, AFAIK, the current system screens the pipes before proceeding to the outfall.  The product of that screening is landfillable sludge, no?

 

No. The "screenings" withhold the non biodegradable solid items (plastics etc) that travel down the pipe. These do end up in the landfill.

 

Sludge is the biodegradable solids (turds) that are separated from the liquids during the secondary treatment process.



#4986 JohnN

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Posted 13 May 2017 - 12:03 PM

No. The "screenings" withhold the non biodegradable solid items (plastics etc) that travel down the pipe. These do end up in the landfill.

 

Sludge is the biodegradable solids (turds) that are separated from the liquids during the secondary treatment process.

 

Screenings probably include anything caught by the 6 mm screens at Macaulay and Clover pump stations so could be plastics, wood, metal, fibre, glass. This  table below is from page 21 of CRD Solid Waste Annual Report 2015: https://www.crd.bc.c...lReport2015.pdf

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#4987 North Shore

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Posted 13 May 2017 - 02:43 PM

^Interesting, the increase in Asbestos.  I wonder if that coincides with an increase in the hassles involved in trying to dispose of it legally, and people are finding it easier to just flush asbestos-containing material down the toilet?


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#4988 JohnN

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Posted 19 May 2017 - 08:32 AM

Letter-writer John Weaver implies that cults of profit and eco-activism will often outweigh evidence-based science in considerations of public policy.
 
Excerpt:
Although we are now beyond the point of no return, it is regrettable that the opinions of clowns such as Mr. Floatie and board members of Tourism Victoria who, as I far as I know, have no scientific expertise, should have prevailed over the advice of both Canadian and U.S. marine scientists and local public-health officers. Apparently, $1 billion of taxpayers’ money is not too much to satisfy the uninformed and emotional concerns of potential visitors.
 
Sewage-project backers use misleading data:

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#4989 JohnN

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Posted 07 June 2017 - 06:14 AM

Excerpt:
 
Sweetnam’s payout was just part of the cost of moving on from Seaterra, said Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps, who chairs the CRD’s sewage committee, but noted she wasn’t in the position when Sweetnam’s contract was negotiated.
 
One of CRD’s top earners hasn’t been on the job since 2015

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Posted 07 June 2017 - 06:20 AM

Of course she wasn't. No screw up is ever her fault, according to her.
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#4991 johnk

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Posted 07 June 2017 - 10:10 AM

We are holding the bag for the klowns who gave us Seaterra and a decrepit $17 million shack in Esquimalt. Said klowns have since scuttled off to their hiding places.

#4992 JohnN

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Posted 18 June 2017 - 07:28 PM

CRD Sewage Committee June 14 meeting - agenda+reports+ 2 hour web
video of meeting:
http://crd.ca.granic...d=1&clip_id=974


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#4993 Kungsberg

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Posted 19 June 2017 - 10:57 PM

CRD Sewage Committee June 14 meeting - agenda+reports+ 2 hour web
video of meeting:
http://crd.ca.granic...d=1&clip_id=974

I got a shiver of impending doom (having been primed, I guess, by the JSB issues) when I listened to the segment when Richard Atwell spoke (34-minute mark), when he commented that he doesn't have much of a decision-making role because "it's been voted away".

 

He goes on to lament the "vagueness" of responses from the Project Board, that things are "not quantified", and he wants a "finer level of detail" from them so that he (and others) can understand and make decisions & have meaningful input; that there are often "grey areas".  He wants the Project Board to report back on the implications of requested changes to the schedule & budget. ( At one point, Lisa Helps as Chair shut down his commentary and requested he restrict himself to questions.)  And the reply he received from Don Fairburn was pretty obtuse and dismissive.

 

Is this how mega-projects continue to get out of hand?  



#4994 Kungsberg

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Posted 19 June 2017 - 11:10 PM

I guess it’s too late to stop this thing, right?.......  :confused:

…especially when you start noticing a few signs of beginning construction.  This is at the James Bay side of the cross-harbour undersea forcemain from Ogden Point to McLoughlin Point. 

 

The 5-metre-high noise wall has been up for a while (although only on 2 sides instead of the 3 sides that would impact residents...hope that's going to be added), the Anglers hut has been removed, and there’s some equipment.

 

From talking to a CRD guy at one of their open houses, the noise wall is actually leased from an outfit in Texas.

 

There will be 12 hour/day drilling noise for 12-18 months as a hole to accommodate the wastewater pipe is first drilled and then reamed out from the James Bay Anglers site on Dallas Rd. to McLoughlin Pt.

 

Drilling will take place from both sides of Victoria Harbour using a process called horizontal directional drilling.

 

Prior to pulling the 48″ wastewater pipe through the hole the pipe sections will be laid out along Niagara St. These sections will occupy Niagara St. from Dallas to Government St.  

 

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Posted 20 June 2017 - 06:41 AM

Anybody with even a rudimentary understanding of how sound propagates in free air will immediately realize that the so-called "noise wall" won't do much at all to mitigate drilling noise.

 

The proposed 75dBA - 85dBA level is a bit of a joke, considering that this will be a constant noise over the 12 hour period.

 

Here are a few things that "sound off" at 75 to 85 dBA:

 

1) Alarm Clock

2) Vacuum Cleaner

3) Garbage Disposal

4) Diesel Semi Truck Passing 

5) Snow Blower

 

Noise at, or above 85dBA for an extended period of time is considered by Worksafe to be damaging to your hearing.

 

This project will be many things, but "effectively sound mitigated" definitely isn't one of them.



#4996 JohnN

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Posted 04 July 2017 - 05:29 AM

TC editorial today includes following section on CRD sewage plant:
 
The larger question, though, is the sewage plant. Unlike bridge construction, this project by its nature is complex, and it has a much larger budget — $765 million, at latest estimate.
 
And here, too, the progress has been anything but smooth. Although nearly a decade has passed since the province directed the Capital Regional District to design a new sewage system, disagreements among the region’s municipalities caused repeated delays.
 
Eventually, under pressure from the province, the CRD settled on a tertiary-treatment plant with facilities at McLoughlin Point and Hartland Landfill. And this time, it appears that lessons have been learned.
 
A seven-person board has been appointed to oversee the project, with most of the members possessing top-level industry credentials.
 
Unlike the bridge design, all of the technologies to be used are well-known and proven. Those include the pipeline system, the plant itself and the tertiary-treatment facility.
 
Companies bidding on the various contracts have been asked to show they have prior, successful experience.
 
Financial risks have been shared among contractors, meaning each has some skin in the game. And the management board has set aside a 10 per cent contingency fund of its own to cover any difficulties.
 
On that basis, there is confidence that both the budget and the completion date, set for the end of 2020, will be met.
 
It does appear, at least as far as the sewage project is concerned, that the Johnson Street Bridge mistakes will not be repeated.
 

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#4997 Bingo

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Posted 04 July 2017 - 06:52 AM

It does appear, at least as far as the sewage project is concerned, that the Johnson Street Bridge mistakes will not be repeated.

 

 

Except for all the ill advised consultations that went south along with the people involved, and like the Johnson Street Bridge millions of dollars wasted.

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#4998 Hotel Mike

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Posted 04 July 2017 - 11:22 AM

The noise has started from the Anglers boat launch, and it can be heard for many blocks in the area. This is going to be one hard summer to have to keep doors and windows closed.


Don't be so sure.:cool:

#4999 jonny

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Posted 04 July 2017 - 01:10 PM

Except for all the ill advised consultations that went south along with the people involved, and like the Johnson Street Bridge millions of dollars wasted.

Otherwise life is just a bowl of cherries...

 

Well, that's one challenge with dragging our heals for so long. Proceeding with treatment plants seemed like the inevitable outcome all along, but expensive years were spent consulting and re-consulting. I guess that's the cost of doing business in a region where the default answer is usually "no".



#5000 JohnN

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Posted 05 July 2017 - 05:50 AM

Excerpt:
While there isn’t much visible progress on the Capital Regional District’s wastewater treatment plant at McLoughlin Point, construction on the long talked-about project is on schedule for a 2020 completion. So says Andy Orr, the CRD’s senior manager of corporate communications.
 

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