Sewage treatment in Victoria | McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant
#4981
Posted 07 May 2017 - 05:10 AM
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#4982
Posted 11 May 2017 - 08:20 AM
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#4983
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
#4984
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?
#4985
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
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
#4987
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?
#4988
Posted 19 May 2017 - 08:32 AM
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#4989
Posted 07 June 2017 - 06:14 AM
#4990
Posted 07 June 2017 - 06:20 AM
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#4991
Posted 07 June 2017 - 10:10 AM
#4992
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
#4993
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
Posted 19 June 2017 - 11:10 PM
I guess it’s too late to stop this thing, right?.......
…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.
#4995
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
Posted 04 July 2017 - 05:29 AM
#4997
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.
Otherwise life is just a bowl of cherries...
#4998
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.
#4999
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
Posted 05 July 2017 - 05:50 AM
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