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[Victoria Watcher]

Tofino sewage treatment plant officially opens on Thursday

Starting this fall, Tofino will stop dumping untreated sewage into the ocean.

https://www.timescol...hursday-9375000

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 21 August 2024 - 04:04 PM.

[lanforod]

I’m not sure they can treat Trudeau effectively.

[Victoria Watcher]

What’s Inside a Manhole?

 

VIDEO from Practical Engineering:   https://youtu.be/1zt...Sm9sjtswqEWk3NY

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 04 February 2025 - 08:15 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

More Victoria homes face sewage backups after relining of Victoria pipes

The issue has cropped up in four streets in the North Park and downtown areas, including Scott, Caledonia, Superior and Blanshard


https://www.timescol...-pipes-10281408

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 25 February 2025 - 06:17 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Seems this contractor needs more practice.

[Victoria Watcher]

Seems this contractor needs more practice.

 

Here is the process:

 

https://youtu.be/Lf9...VIYG8BprkrxrjaX

 

It seems that this company may have failed several of the "reinstatements" of the laterals.

[Victoria Watcher]

Thousands of homeowners across Victoria will soon receive an information letter as multiple homes face sewage backups following work done to city pipes.

 

On Sunday, CHEK News reported several homes on Scott Street had experienced sewage backups and flooding after work was done to reline the city’s sewage main under the street.

 

Tiffany Webber told her story of how the basement crawlspace in the home she is renting to tenants flooded with inches of sewage water after the house wasn’t reconnected to the sewage system following work the city hired a contractor to do.

 

READ MORE: Sewage backup floods multiple homes in Victoria after city work done on pipes

 

This was the first time CHEK News had heard of these issues, but today the city said in a statement it knew about issues arising since November.

 

Back in July, the city awarded Superior City Services Ltd., a Surrey-based ­company, a $1.78 million contract to reline the sewer drains under the street.

 

The city said the contract was for work on 35 streets across the city, but did not disclose which ones.

 

 

https://cheknews.ca/...lining-1240713/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 25 February 2025 - 10:52 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

The Capital Regional District has named an Australian engineering company as the preferred partner to convert biosolids from wastewater treatment into biochar.

 

Pyrocal PTY Ltd. would supply the technology for a plant that burns biosolids at high temperatures.

 

The end products are biochar, a charcoal substance that can be used to improve soils by helping them retain moisture and nutrients, as well as bio-oil and syngas, both of which can be captured and used as fuel to create heat or electricity.

 

Biochar production as an end game to the region’s sewage system has been a long-term goal for the CRD, but will have to go through a lengthy public-engagement process and environmental regulations before any plant is approved.

 

The CRD said it would be the first plant of its kind in Canada. The proposed system would be designed as an added component to the Residuals Treatment Facility at Hartland Landfill to process all class A biosolids emerging from sewage treatment.

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...solids-10869370

[Mike K.]

How is the ocean doing now that we’ve stopped pumping sewage into the strait? Any before and after data?

[Victoria Watcher]

How is the ocean doing now that we’ve stopped pumping sewage into the strait? Any before and after data?

 

It was probably doing better before.  That was some kind of nutrients.

[Sparky]

How is the ocean doing now that we’ve stopped pumping sewage into the strait? Any before and after data?

You would think that it would be ok to swim at Willows Beach…but nope.

[LJ]

 

The Capital Regional District has named an Australian engineering company as the preferred partner to convert biosolids from wastewater treatment into biochar.

 

Pyrocal PTY Ltd. would supply the technology for a plant that burns biosolids at high temperatures.

 

The end products are biochar, a charcoal substance that can be used to improve soils by helping them retain moisture and nutrients, as well as bio-oil and syngas, both of which can be captured and used as fuel to create heat or electricity.

 

Biochar production as an end game to the region’s sewage system has been a long-term goal for the CRD, but will have to go through a lengthy public-engagement process and environmental regulations before any plant is approved.

 

The CRD said it would be the first plant of its kind in Canada. The proposed system would be designed as an added component to the Residuals Treatment Facility at Hartland Landfill to process all class A biosolids emerging from sewage treatment.

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...solids-10869370

 

Oh great, we will spend millions on another emerging technology that will probably work as well as the sewage treatment plant.

[Victoria Watcher]

Ya a French system for the gas. Now Australia for the crud.

I thought our elbows were up and we are buying Canadian?

[Daveyboy]

Whenever our city or region is the first to do something or try a new company that nobody knows anything about, I get a sickening feeling in my stomach.  Of course that sickening feeling is entirely built on previous experiences where we did the same thing and it didn't work so well.....

[Victoria Watcher]

Whenever our city or region is the first to do something or try a new company that nobody knows anything about, I get a sickening feeling in my stomach.  Of course that sickening feeling is entirely built on previous experiences where we did the same thing and it didn't work so well.....

 

The first gas>electric plant at Hartland only lasted 20 years.  Now it's going in the dump.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 June 2025 - 10:46 AM.

[aastra]

 

How is the ocean doing now that we’ve stopped pumping sewage into the strait? Any before and after data?

 

Sea life is flourishing now, there are bajillions of fish, sea birds, and sea mammals. Night and day difference from before. Go check for yourself if you don't believe me. Just be prepared for the shock of encountering a large & healthy seagull for the first time in years.