The Capital Regional District voted in favour of building a regional sewage treatment plant at McLoughlin Point in Esquimalt, Wednesday. The new proposal for McLoughlin Point includes a smaller footprint and significant improvements to landscaping, project board chair Jane Bird said last week. While liquids treatment will occur at McLoughlin Point, solids processing will be located at Hartland landfill in Saanich. McLoughlin Point as it appears today. The CRD faces a deadline of 2020 to provide secondary sewage treatment.

Source: CBC News September 14, 2016 21:45 UTC