Victoria’s sewage treatment facility or facilities should be placed on the ocean. Several communities around the world have sewage treatment plants located on vessels offshore. I only heard this option mentioned once in this debate.
Placing the plant offshore requires no land, no local landfill, no truck traffic in neighbourhoods, no massive disruptions to build a pipeline to the landfill, and utilizes inexpensive barging away residue to a landfill such as the open pit mine on Texada where further treatment or storage could take place. Nimbys rejoice, there is a solution.
Peter Nalleweg
Victoria