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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.

[Victoria Watcher]

Crazy that the Vancouver plant (Iona) is going to cost $10B (or more).

[Victoria Watcher]

Victoria’s storm sewers need to be cleaned up

 

 

Victoria is angling for $12 million in infrastructure money. Before another dime is handed over, the city should face its dirtiest secret: storm sewers that continuously flush toxics and sewage into our harbour and the Gorge.

 

Federal and provincial reports have been blunt: Stormwater is the ongoing source of PCBs, PAHs, heavy metals, dioxins, and fecal bacteria that re-contaminate harbour sediments.

 

Rock Bay alone cost taxpayers over $150 million to dredge and cap, yet City outfalls 626, 626A, and 627 still dump 55 tonnes of polluted solids into the narbour every year. By 2021, dioxins and metals in those discharges were already exceeding Canadian sediment guidelines two to three times over.

 

Cecelia Creek, draining into the Gorge, still carries copper, zinc, aluminum, and E. coli at levels far above safe limits.

 

This is not just an environmental embarrassment. Families paddle, fish, and swim in waters the City knows are contaminated. Salmon runs are being suffocated, seabirds poisoned, and orcas carry Victoria’s PCBs in their tissues.

 

Source control isn’t glamorous, but it is essential. Stop the re-contamination before talking about daylighting Bowker Creek or new swimming pools.

Fix your storm sewers first, then come back for money.

 

 

 

John R. Roe

Veins of Life Watershed Society

Victoria

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...d-cool-11208992

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 September 2025 - 09:49 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

I don't understand the fascination with daylighting Bowker Creek.  It's a storm sewer, essentially.  There are lot of other water features around us.

[Victoria Watcher]

Esquimalt has awarded a $718,000 contract to fix and upgrade its malfunctioning sewage pump station on Uganda Avenue.

 

Township staff said in a memo this week that the station has been operating at half capacity since one of the two pumps went offline due to an “unknown issue.”

 

The Uganda pump station, which serves homes and businesses northeast of Craigflower Road and Tillicum, had been identified as a high-priority replacement project, as its pumps are at the end of their functional lifespan.

 

Contract winner Don Mann Excavating Ltd. of Saanich was the lowest of three bidders on the project, which included bids from Saanich firm Coast Utility Contracting Ltd. and Maple Ridge-based Drake Excavating Ltd.

 

 

https://www.timescol...718000-11213953

 

 

 

has been operating at half capacity since one of the two pumps went offline due to an “unknown issue.”

 

 

Have they tied unplugging it then plugging it back in?   

 

Seriously though, if it's an "unknown issue", how does Don Mann know it costs $718,000 to fix?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 17 September 2025 - 01:17 AM.