In 2006, a blue ribbon panel was convened to determine the environmental need for a sewage treatment plant in Victoria. “Strong tidal currents and the cold, well-oxygenated waters of Victoria’s marine environment give these waters a high assimilative capacity for organic waste,” it read. Despite all of this, calls for a sewage treatment plant have never abated, and have been driven along largely by political factors. Floatie,” a large mascot of a turd — even though due to primary screening of Victoria’s sewage, real “floaties” are never discharged by Victoria. And in 2006 the issue came to a head when B.C.’s then-Minister of Environment Barry Penner ordered the city to draw up plans for a secondary sewage treatment plant.

Source: National Post April 26, 2018 17:26 UTC