McLoughlin Point, Site of the Capital Regional District's Tertiary Sewage Treatment Plant
In this little video clip from July, 2013, yours truly, Dr. Gerald Graham, is filmed at McLoughlin Pt., at the entrance to Victoria Harbour in British Columbia, Canada. After much wrangling, the Capital Regional District chose McLoughlin Pt. as the single, centralised site for tertiary treatment of the region's sewage. Construction is now underway, and is expected to be completed in time to meet the federal wastewater deadline of end of 2020.
In Gerald's view, McLoughlin Pt. is an excellent location for such a facility. Tucked away at the end of a naval base, on a private cul de sac, the former tank farm is unsuitable for for much else, which probably explains why it has been idle for years. It's prominent location at the entrance to the harbour also sends a message to tourists arriving on float planes, on the Coho ferry, as well as on cruise ships that dock across the harbour at Ogden Point, that British Columbia's capital city is serious about protecting its ocean. Thus, rather than hiding or disguising the facility, as if it were a prison or facility for the mentally ill, there should be huge banner on the building, proclaiming: Victoria Protects its Ocean!. Once in operation in 2021, daily tours of the facility should be given to schoolchildren, and interactive educational displays mounted. In addition, an ambitious international marketing campaign should be developed, aimed at enticing back to the city convention business that has traditionally shunned it because of its notorious, longstanding practice of dumping raw, untreated sewage into the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference in particular has been choosing Vancouver and Seattle over Victoria for its biennial gathering for many years because of The Garden City's shameful practice. This should now change.
The only problem with the suitability of the McLoughlin Pt. site for a sewage treatment plant is that it isn't big enough to accommodate a sludge treatment facility as well. The Dept. of National Defence could solve that problem by selling the CRD surplus DND land at nearby Macaulay Pt, so that both plants could be located at one site, instead of having to pipe the sludge great distances for treatment and disposal off site. But unless that happens, McLoughlin Pt. will have to suffice.
Part of Dr. Gerald Graham's interest in the Victoria sewage treatment issue stems from his involvement over twenty years ago in the World Bank's Urban Environment Project in Banjul, the capital of The Gambia. Dr. Graham participated in two short-term consulting missions to this West African coastal country, which at the time was flushing raw, untreated sewage into, among other places, the Tourist Development Zone on the outskirts of the capital.
The Urban Environment Project included a component to install sewage pipes throughout the capital, as well as a facility to treat the sewage so that it would no longer end up on the beaches, tourism being one of the country's principal sources of economic activity.
Dr. Graham participated in the feasibility study phase of this World Bank-financed Gambian initiative.
It is Dr. Graham's fervent hope that his adopted city of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, which also depends heavily upon tourism, will now follow the lead of this poor West African nation and treat its sewage.
To be fair, at least we have sewage pipes that collect our sewage before dumping it into the sea. In the case of The Gambia, most of the downtown area at least had open trenches where raw sewage collected.
In 2006 Dr. Graham was commissioned to write a report entitled Is Victoria Sewage Contaminating Southern Resident Killer Whales? ( ), which was submitted to the SETAC panel tasked with reviewing the issue of Victoria sewage.
In 2012 Dr. Graham was part of a team representing the pro-treatment side in a public forum on sewage treatment that took place in Oak Bay, a suburb of Victoria.
In 2013 Dr. Graham made a presentation on sewage treatment before the Capital Regional District Board in Victoria.
Dr. Graham has a keen personal interest in sewage treatment as well. In both Ottawa and Central Saanich, for instance, he and his wife toured the local sewage treatment plants, to get a better feel for what sewage looks and smells like, to see how it is treated and what the end product is. This first hand exposure to sewage treatment is more than can be said for most of the opponents of sewage treatment in Victoria, who probably have never set foot inside such a facility, even though one exists right in their own backyard, so to speak.
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