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[spanky123]

^ The FN is still being paid. Pretty good deal for them!

[A Girl is No one]

^ The FN is still being paid. Pretty good deal for them!

Can we deduct this from our « reconciliation fee »?

[Mike K.]

Sounds like there was quite the spill at Salt Spring’s sewage treatment plant. From the CRD:

A spill of wastewater has occurred at the Ganges Wastewater Treatment Plant on Salt Spring Island. A mechanical failure of part of the above ground piping system, likely as a result of the current cold temperatures, was the root cause of the spill. Much of the volume was contained on site, but some sewage ran overland, entered the storm water system leading from the facility to Ganges Creek and out to Ganges Harbour. Crews have completed clean-up efforts, placed warning signs, and cordoned off the affected area including a section of the path located immediately north of the facility adjacent to Ganges Creek.

As a result of this discharge, residents are advised to avoid contacting the affected areas where the spill occurred as well as avoid entering the waters along the affected shorelines, as the wastewater may pose a health risk.

As a precaution and in consultation with Island Health, the affected area will be posted with public health advisory signs until environmental sample results indicate that the affected area no longer poses a health risk.

[Sparky]

Darron Kloster just posted a couple of interesting articles about the journey of a turd along with some high level thoughts in the TC this morning. Worth a read.

 

https://www.timescol...-a-fuel-5155317

 

https://www.timescol...-remain-5155298

 

If you can pardon the pun...that must have been a **** load of work on his part.

[Victoria Watcher]

Darron Kloster just posted an interesting article about the journey of a turd in the TC this morning. Worth a read.

 

https://www.timescol...-a-fuel-5155317

 

Is it political?  About Lisa Helps coming to Victoria from Ontario?

[Victoria Watcher]

Meanwhile, the CRD is exploring plans to make the McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant more accessible for the public, including tours for schools and other interested groups.

 

A large observation deck is being ­outfitted with information boards on how the plant works. It’s close to a laboratory and the control room where workers monitor flows in the plant and pipeline system and analysts study the sewage treatment process.

 

[Sparky]

Is it political?  About Lisa Helps coming to Victoria from Ontario?

Sorry VW...I am not joining the dots.  ?

[Victoria Watcher]

Sorry VW...I am not joining the dots.  ?

 

You said the story was about "the journey of a turd".  So that sprang to mind.

[Sparky]

You just hit my funny bone, Still chortling.

[Victoria Watcher]

Ahousaht First Nation opens new wastewater treatment plant

 

The $25-million plant, funded by the federal government, replaces an aging septic-tank treatment system and lift station, as well as an outfall pipe that spilled into a shellfish habitat sensitive to contamination.

 

 

https://www.timescol...t-plant-5747103

 

 

That's one heck of a plant.  Over $33,000 per resident to install.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 27 August 2022 - 05:19 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Lisa Helps:

 

 

 

Together we helped to deliver a new regional sewage treatment plant, completed the Johnson Street Bridge, built a new Firehall No. 1, which is close to completion, and we leveraged city land to now have close to 600 affordable housing units moving ahead.

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...-future-6041823

 

 

 

 

Ah, no you did not.  You had that responsibility completely taken away from you by the province because you were too inept to handle it.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 02 November 2022 - 04:42 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

With her windows cracked to let the summer night air in, Carole Witter is suddenly hit with an intense cloud of stink as she lies in bed. The gag-inducing odours come and go with the winds, but there have been countless times when Witter has abandoned her outdoor leisure for refuge from the foul smells.

After Greater Victoria’s long-awaited wastewater plant started up almost two years ago, she’s just one of the residents from Vic West and Esquimalt’s West Bay neighbourhood who feel a main promise of the project has so far been broken.

When the Capital Regional District approved the almost $775-million McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant, it came with a written agreement that neighbours wouldn’t be subject to unacceptable amounts of odour.

https://www.vicnews....rough-the-nose/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 November 2022 - 05:52 AM.

[Mike K.]

Are the prevailing winds easterlies or from the south? You’d think James Bay residents who are equidistant to Esquimalt residents in West Bay would be complaining, too.

[Sparky]

Our prevailing winds come out of the south west… no?

[Mike K.]

Are Vic West residents in the Songhees complaining?

[max.bravo]

Our prevailing winds come out of the south west… no?

I think generally, yes, but if you look at a wind map you'll see we get wind from all directions. We're located at the equivalent of a 10-way-stop-intersection for winds. https://earth.nullsc....32,48.54,32057

[JohnN]

Are the prevailing winds easterlies or from the south? You’d think James Bay residents who are equidistant to Esquimalt residents in West Bay would be complaining, too.

 

I've got a wind directions graph from 2016 but I don't know where the data came from. It suggests that parts of Vic West and downtown core might get more McLoughlin-origin odours in summer but in winter, the distribution suggests that winds would be from North so smells go south. 

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[Mike K.]

Interesting.

Could it be that there’s an unrelated issue, then? Is it the perennial seaweed stink (it does take a lot of getting used to) that the people in West Bay are actually smelling?

[max.bravo]

Even if only 10% of the time, getting blasted with sewage stink (when you were promised none) can’t be pleasant. I feel for these folks.

I never would’ve believed a sewage plant could be odourless, but that’s beside the point. They did

[aastra]

A casual search re: the sewage treatment facility experiences in other places would suggest odor issues manifest to some degree about 100% of the time. Certainly no surprise, although as Mike K. suggests, there may be other factors. It's also not unusual for people to complain about the smell of sewage and/or pollution when they're actually just smelling the ocean shore itself.