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Piglet party A gaggle of kids, from left, Emily Hill, Noah Pollard, Anna Hutchinson, Isaac Beattie, Brandon Wong, Owen Burgers and Mackenzie Snow are among the three and four-year-olds from Carrot Seed Preschool playing with piglets and baby goats provided by Four Fox Farm on a glorious spring morning. Nate Clark/News staff
2,200 near Prospect Lake say no to sewage plan Christine van Reeuwyk News staff
Prospect Lake residents hope the Capital Regional District will “sit up and pay attention” after offering a petition with more than 2,200 names to the legislature on Monday (May 5). MLA Andrew Weaver presented the petition, signed by 2,249 concerned residents, that asks that
the BC Legislature order an independent, expert third-party review of the CRD’s sewage treatment plan. “We do have the attention of the government on this,” said Fred Haynes, past president of the Prospect Lake Community Association. “It calls for a halt and a third party review of the current plan.” The community association initiated the petition in December.
Recently the provincial government indicated it will stay out of any intervention request by the CRD. “This is not politics, it’s about appropriate development and appropriate taxation levels for municipal infrastructure,” Haynes said. “We should not spend $1 billion to purchase a treatment system that is flawed and past its expiry date.”
They’re interested in looking at newer technologies, citing those demonstrated at Dockside Green in Victoria, Ladysmith, Blaine Washington, and Guadalajara, Mexico. “Around the world people are looking at harvesting the resources, the water itself and the biosolids. The newer tertiary treatment systems let us capture that,” he said. “This current technology
doesn’t capture any of that. It’s like buying a cellphone that’s 15 years old. Why would anyone do that?” While the current proposal may have been thoroughly looked at and vetted by CRD staff, Haynes said that was in 2007. PlEASE SEE: Petition seeks alternative review, Page A24
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