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#1 Citified.ca

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Posted 30 May 2022 - 10:01 AM

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An aerial depiction of two subdivisions proposed for Shawnigan Lake in the Cowichan Valley Regional District. Known as Shawnigan Village and Shawnigan Estates, the projects will deliver approximately 500-units of housing, plus commercial spaces, an arts school, seniors facilities, medical offices and a grocery store.

 

Eco-friendly subdivisions in Shawnigan Lake to include below-market houses, rental apartments and commercial village

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...Although separated by some 400 meters, developer Aaron Usatch describes the two projects as having a symbiotic relationship through a wastewater treatment process diverting used potable water from the Sager property east to the Shawnigan Estates subdivision.

 
According to Usatch, the lack of wastewater treatment has been a long-time obstacle to developing the Sager land for housing and commercial uses, relegating it to largely vacant status for over two decades.
 
“One of the perennial challenges of building on 2821 Shawnigan Lake Road has been the need to collect and treat its wastewater. The solution we’ve developed is to pump water and sewage from the property to Shawnigan Estates, treat the outflow at a state-of-the-art treatment facility, then use that treated, drinkable water to flush toilets at Shawnigan Estates and to irrigate a 20-acre biodynamic farm,” said Usatch, adding that “the farm at the heart of our proposal will effectively unlock the potential of the Sager lands, while providing food security to the region and saving the water equivalent of an Olympic-sized swimming pool every day.”

 


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#2 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 30 May 2022 - 10:10 AM

Hold on one minute. That sewage water will be turned into drinkable water, but it’ll be used to flush toilets and irrigate crops? Can I shower in it and drink and cook with it?



20-acre biodynamic farm,” said Usatch, adding that “the farm at the heart of our proposal will effectively unlock the potential of the Sager lands, while providing food security to the region and saving the water equivalent of an Olympic-sized swimming pool every day.”




Each person requires 1 or 2 acres of land to feed them. So that 20-acre farm can only feed 10 or 20 of the 1,000 new residents. Is that “food security”?

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#3 Mike K.

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Posted 30 May 2022 - 10:29 AM

Yes, you could drink it, but I don't think we're quite there yet with the marketing of such water for human consumption.


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Posted 30 May 2022 - 12:58 PM

Hold on one minute. That sewage water will be turned into drinkable water, but it’ll be used to flush toilets and irrigate crops? Can I shower in it and drink and cook with it?



20-acre biodynamic farm,” said Usatch, adding that “the farm at the heart of our proposal will effectively unlock the potential of the Sager lands, while providing food security to the region and saving the water equivalent of an Olympic-sized swimming pool every day.”




Each person requires 1 or 2 acres of land to feed them. So that 20-acre farm can only feed 10 or 20 of the 1,000 new residents. Is that “food security”?

 

Being a biodynamic farm, its probably less efficient too, though supposedly, more sustainable.



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Posted 30 May 2022 - 01:05 PM

Being a biodynamic farm, its probably less efficient too, though supposedly, more sustainable.

Steiner wrote one of my favourite books. The Philosophy of Freedom. It was his first. I also like Anthroposophical architecture and Waldorf School methods. He did get quite out there though in his body of work. There is some voodoo in Biodynamic farming that's for sure. It is interesting they are going that route and not just Organic or Permaculture though. 


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#6 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 30 May 2022 - 01:12 PM

It’s voodoo alright.

https://en.m.wikiped...mic_agriculture

Sounds OK though.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 30 May 2022 - 01:13 PM.


#7 Mike K.

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Posted 30 May 2022 - 01:16 PM

Interesting. It looks like Germany is by far the biggest adopter, at 42% of all such farms in the world.

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#8 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 11 September 2023 - 08:45 AM

Oh, maybe you meant this village centre.  Ya, it has sewers.



 



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