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#21 manuel

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Posted 29 December 2017 - 01:33 PM

Agree with Mike and I'd wager quite a bit that oak Bay's sewer problem is worse.

As for pundits suggesting what esquimault should do, perhaps read the relevant legislation (whatever it is) or seek an informed opinion first. There are rules around things like this, particularly contamination of navigable and fishery waters. Esquimault may have no choice. I do not know.

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#22 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 29 December 2017 - 01:54 PM

Can't I wonder aloud what the deal is?  I do not know either.

 

But since our storm drain system mixes with raw sewage several times every year, and discharges it in very short outfalls all over our shorelines, and has for 50+ years, I just assume there is not strict regulation.  And our new sewage system is going to do nothing to change this.

 

But let me tell you, if I bought a house in the affected area 4 years ago, and not a single person told me anything about this, or nothing is on title, or disclosure, and the municipality is now going to tell me I owe $16,250 ($6.5M/400 homes) I'm not going to go quietly to the bank to get the money for them.  I'm rightly going to assume the $7,000/year they have already been extracting from me for property tax has been going to deal with this type of thing all along.


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#23 Mike K.

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Posted 29 December 2017 - 03:06 PM

Could something like this, theoretically, bankrupt a small municipality such as Esquimalt?

 

The homeowners are not going to pay unless it can be proven by the municipality that the home was purchased with the owner being made aware in writing that there was a municipal sewer issue outstanding and it affected that property. Even then there is a statute of limitations here.


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#24 Bingo

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Posted 29 December 2017 - 04:42 PM

So it goes from 1 house maybe spilling, to 400 maybe, and from a few thousand dollars they might stick on one homeowner, to $13M they have no idea how to deal with. 

 

Who is the engineer on this thing?

 

And now Veins of Life say this thing was known in the 70's.  Meanwhile, the vast majority of the houses will have changed owners in that time, were they made aware?

 

This has the making of a serious screw-up and legal wrangling for decades. 

 

Or, they might ignore it.  After all, before this last summer's swim, all was fine, right?

 

This is nothing...wait until they screw up the sludge pipe to the landfill, and sludge finds its way into bathrooms.


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