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Posted 28 March 2017 - 07:16 PM
Nice Property great views but destined to become a white elephant
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Posted 29 March 2017 - 08:02 AM
Posted 29 March 2017 - 08:16 AM
Important for her credibility that "Gudgeon stressed that she supports building a sewage-treatment plant." because if you were to agree with the marine scientists and public health officials that a sewage plant won't be an environmental asset but just an expensive, sludge-producing burden, then who would take you seriously?
Excerpts:
“I’m urging everyone to attend,” said former Victoria councillor Shellie Gudgeon, a Vic West resident, who said she’s worried odour standards being set for the new plant’s operations aren’t rigorous enough.
“It concerns me tremendously for the quality of life for the neighbourhoods of Vic West, James Bay and downtown,” Gudgeon said. She said odours are still an occasional problem with the small Dockside Green sewage treatment plant and those types of issues, if not addressed now, could become larger with the regional plant planned for McLoughlin Point.
Gudgeon stressed that she supports building a sewage-treatment plant.
Meeting to air worries about sewage-treatment project
http://www.timescolo...ject-1.13289207
Posted 29 March 2017 - 01:25 PM
Gudgeon says that the CRD has quietly removed the 'zero' smell caveat to a '5,' whatever that means, but zero smell is no longer on the table which she believes is a huge cost cutting measure as the CRD realizes the costs to build the plant have already jumped.
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Posted 31 March 2017 - 05:12 AM
Excerpt:
John Gunton, a panellist, said the $765-million project is a foregone conclusion but people can still voice their opinions. “The ship has sailed on the sewage plant,” he said. “Let’s make sure it goes in the right direction and doesn’t founder.” Gunton said the project has been 10 years in the making but he has questions about the overall design. He said there hasn’t been enough consideration given to the communities that will be affected. Vic West, James Bay, Fairfield and downtown residents helped organize the meeting.
Residents rankled by McLoughlin sewage-plant disruptions:
http://www.timescolo...ions-1.13558319
Posted 31 March 2017 - 12:39 PM
Posted 31 March 2017 - 01:15 PM
This has more to do with Gudgeon wanting a run at the next election than it does with sewage.
Ok, but great that she chose the sewage project as part of her ramp-up for election because politicians do tend to make statements and may take unexpected positions in order to get media attention. Example could be the 2012 Victoria byelection (image) where all candidates except NDP ended-up opposing the CRD sewage plant.:
Posted 31 March 2017 - 01:16 PM
CFAX website news story, excerpt:
Concerns over the coming sewage treatment plant are "bubbling up." That's how Wayne Shillington with the James Bay Neighbourhood Association described Thursday night's meeting of Victoria residents concerned with sewage treatment plans.
RANGE OF WORRIES EXPRESSED OVER SEWAGE PLANT: http://www.iheartrad...plant-1.2510466
Edited by JohnN, 31 March 2017 - 01:17 PM.
Posted 31 March 2017 - 01:54 PM
For anybody who's ever had to get up from their table and leave the Vic West Foi Epi while eating their lunch - this to get away from the absolutely overwhelming stink that occasionally emanates from that Dockside Green mini sewage treatment plant - they'll know if that kind of odour is to be expected from the CRD sewage treatment plant ... we're in for quite the stinky ride for the next few decades - especially those folks living in James Bay, Esquimalt, Vic West and perhaps even downtown Victoria (depending on which way the wind blows).
Put simply, if Dockside Green is in any way a measuring stick for the "odour level" of the new treatment plant, or if Dockside is considered anywhere near a "5" (whatever that is) ... we're in big trouble.
Posted 05 April 2017 - 11:05 AM
Harbour Resource Partners have been awarded a $272M contract.
Posted 05 April 2017 - 11:20 AM
Posted 06 April 2017 - 05:26 AM
Posted 06 April 2017 - 05:41 AM
^ But it's coming with better treatment?
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Posted 06 April 2017 - 07:23 AM
Posted 06 April 2017 - 07:33 AM
John, do you happen to know if the successful bidders submitted pricing in accordance with plans, specifications, and addenda.....or is this a design build project?
Posted 06 April 2017 - 09:56 AM
John, do you happen to know if the successful bidders submitted pricing in accordance with plans, specifications, and addenda.....or is this a design build project?
Sorry, I don't know that at this time. However, even if a design-build project, I would think that the estimate would need to meet Project Board's plans. Nevertheless, the Harbour Resource Partners' history (prior submission in 2014 followed by the December 29,2015 HRP letter to CRD to reiterate its interest in submitting new bid), might suggest the possibility that Project Board could have revised its plans to meet HRB's offer?
Posted 06 April 2017 - 10:51 AM
Excerpt:The contract to build the McLoughlin Point sewage-treatment plant has been awarded to the same consortium that was selected for the job in 2014, before that project collapsed. And it will cost another $37 million.$272-million contract award for McLoughlin sewage plant, up $37 million:
So much for Desjardins' claims that waiting didn't cost any extra money.
Posted 06 April 2017 - 11:21 AM
So much for Desjardins' claims that waiting didn't cost any extra money.
Seems a bit odd that the story says the estimated $37 million increase is attributed to tertiary-stage treatment being added on because I think that tertiary was implied as a part of HRP's December, 2016 letter to CRD (pages 402-405 in agenda package). HRP was offering a higher level of treatment than what the Rock Bay option was promising, suggesting that HRP was offering tertiary. However, some of the issue is that tertiary can be 100% of sewage flow treatment, or only a part of the flow.
Perhaps part of the increase might be the cost of securing First Nations' consent for the project (which I think might add up to about $5 million). Its possible that if the project had started promptly in or about 2013, the actual cost could have been lower. However, its also possible that paying for guaranteed FN consent might have erupted as an unplanned expense and delay itself.
Posted 11 April 2017 - 05:21 AM
Posted 11 April 2017 - 05:49 AM
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