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[Victoria Watcher]

put a Ferris Wheel atop it.

all will be forgiven.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 25 July 2021 - 07:36 AM.

[Nparker]

put a Ferris Wheel atop it..

Or picnic tables.

[Victoria Watcher]

and $5000 ping pong tables.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 25 July 2021 - 07:38 AM.

[todd]

What happened to the casino?

[todd]

I think it looks highly functional, and optically is more than acceptable considering its design requirements are less influenced by how the neighbourhood might like it to look, and more influenced by the extremely vertical duties the building is actually obliged to perform.

Like hospitals, theatres, water treatment plants and the like ... some buildings have to "look" as their function requires that they look ... rather than how somebody might think they should look.

much smaller scale but they did a nice job(but smelly sometimes) years and years ago on the Windsor Park pump station https://goo.gl/maps/WH4ZPM1q8q7oRrk3A


They can’t put a cap over the building?

Edited by todd, 25 July 2021 - 08:03 AM.

[Jackerbie]

It is butt ugly and it’s very visible from the west Songhees walkway….
I really hope they plant trees around it to hide it.

The planting beds appear to have evergreen saplings and a couple deciduous trees. They'll take a while to grow, but they're there!

[JohnN]

A couple of editorial cartoons below from 2013 when design of the sewage plant was being debated. 

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Edited by JohnN, 25 July 2021 - 01:50 PM.

[Nparker]

Raeside was spot-on.

[todd]

[Spy Black]

Looks light-years better than the rusty old oil tanks that sat there for the past 6 or 7 decades!

 

As a side note, I've always wondered whose house that was on the right hand side of the photo?

I believe it's part of Work Point, and the Rear Admiral lives over Naden way ..... so is this the Captains house?

Regardless, talk about a prime location!

Edited by Spy Black, 28 July 2021 - 06:37 AM.

[Mike K.]

I’ll try to find out.

[Sparky]

Is it this one? Hard to tell.

 

 

https://www.historic...eu.aspx?id=3983

[Spy Black]

Is it this one? Hard to tell.

 

Might be, there have likely been reno's over the years.

It could also be the one even further out on that same point, in an even more prime location ... the one in between the two gun batteries that are right on the water as seen on Google Maps.

 

For what's basically "downtown living" ... it's as good as it gets, with the views, and the ultimate privacy!

[Victoria Watcher]

There should be properly filtered wastewater when the rains finally come as the Capital Regional District (CRD) expects the construction of its Arbutus Attenuation Tank to be completed this summer.

 

The 5,000-cubic-metre concrete underground tank, which NAC Constructors Ltd. began constructing in the summer of 2019, will store wastewater flow during rainstorms and play an instrumental role in reducing the number of sewer overflows in the District of Saanich.

 

 

 

https://www.vicnews....te-this-summer/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 03 August 2021 - 05:59 AM.

[North Shore]

^I'm still peeved about the location of that holding tank!  There was a wide open, poorly used green field across the road that could have been used, and turned into an all-weather field or somesuch; instead, the CRD chose to hack down a load of trees in a small, but well-used urban park...

[A Girl is No one]

That’s terrible!

[Rex Waverly]

^I'm still peeved about the location of that holding tank!  There was a wide open, poorly used green field across the road that could have been used, and turned into an all-weather field or somesuch; instead, the CRD chose to hack down a load of trees in a small, but well-used urban park...

 

Well, in the CRD's defence, I don't think the field is public property and would therefore need to be purchased / expropriated. Also the field is at a lower elevation than the park, and therefore may not have been suitable for a retention tank (at least without installing a pump station to pump the retained water uphill again).  

[North Shore]

I think that the field 'belongs' to Queen Alexandria hospital...but, where do they get their funding from?  Us, I'd suspect..

[Mike K.]

Another round of sewage discharge notices for the east side of the region, along the Oak Bay and east Saanich coasts.

[JohnN]

Another round of sewage discharge notices for the east side of the region, along the Oak Bay and east Saanich coasts.

I guess those notices are for storm drains and combined sewage-storm drain overflow. Might also be for the new McLoughlin sewage plant, both the emergency flow pipe (which was the only sewage pipe) and that the treatment stages may have been downgraded with the exceptionally-high flows down to just screening (table image)

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