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In today’s second installment of our five-part series on sewage treatment in Greater Victoria, we look at the sites put forward by the Capital Regional District’s liquid waste management committee. With committee members from the seven municipalities involved voicing concerns over the cost to taxpayers, Don Descoteau, Clover Point in Victoria, the previously shelved Black Press McLoughlin Point in project leader Esquimalt and a nearby alternative, a DND-owned section of land on Macaulay Point, have emerged. Each potential site, presented in a conditional recommendation to the CRD board, is being fully costed out. The goal is to have a cost-effective business plan to present to the province and the federal government for consideration before March 31, the funding deadline for a portion of the federal dollars promised. When a single plant at McLoughlin was previously pursued, the province refused to step in and either mandate an agreement or broker a deal with Esquimalt, which had rejected a variance for the site. This time, the B.C. government is helping facilitate completion of the siting process, which includes receiving critical zoning approval. don.descoteau@blackpress.ca See pages 10 and 11

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iagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, also known as acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), eight-year old Ethan Bryne from Sidney will see his toughest months ahead. The past few weeks have been hard for Ethan, as the type of chemotherapy he receives is consistently changing to ensure the killing of bad blood cells. Ethan’s aunt, Jennifer Massullo said he’s been very tired recently, sleeping most of the day. “He’s pretty exhausted from the whole process so far,” she told the PNR. Ethan and his family travel back and forth to the B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vancouver about once a month to meet with his medical team and he has been able to have treatments administered at Victoria General Hospital. Ethan is currently at home, with his family by his side every step of the way, and goes in once a week for his chemo treatment. A large help to the family in this rough time has been the constant support from the community. “The community has been phenomenal, I think my brother and his wife have just been blown away by the outpour of support from everybody,” said Massullo. Last month, a fundraiser was held at Salon J in Sidney, which saw more than $5,000 raised. There are also two GoFund Me pages, which have together raised around $15,000. “It certainly helps to take the pressure off of them (Ethan’s parents)…” PLEASE SEE: Challenging months ahead, page 4

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Sidney Gateway plans revisited Concerns over traffic, impact on Sidney business still top of mind Steven Heywood News staff

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Lawrence Woytowich, far left, has been recognized for his service to the sport of curling in B.C.

Woytowich recognized for his contributions to curling in B.C.

NORTH SAANICH — Lawrence Woytowich was recently honoured by awards from Curl BC and Sport BC for his involvement in curling. Woytowich received two long service awards from both of those organizations. These awards are presented to a volunteer who represents the spirit of volunteerism, and whose dedication, energy, and commitment contribute to development of their sport or organization in the province. The awards were a result of many years of volunteer work at Glen Meadows Curling Club, provincially with Curl BC, Pacific Coast Masters Curling Association, BC Senior Games and Nationally with Canada Senior Games. This included sitting on all of the boards and expanding programs for Senior Curlers. — Submitted

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In the News Review’s March 16 edition, in the page three item on the Saanich Fruit Growers Association donation to Central Saanich’s Newman Farm, Natasha Caverley was incorrectly identified as Nicola Cavendish. Caverley is the board secretary for the Association. The News Review apologizes for the error.

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There’s an estimated $450 million spent by Saanich Peninsula residents each year on groceries and other goods and services, yet only $126 million of that stays in Sidney and the surrounding area. Retaining more of those shopping dollars is what Peter Laughlin says his development company hopes to achieve by building an estimated 100,000 square foot retail area across the Pat Bay Highway from Sidney’s downtown core. Laughlin, the Vancouver Island director of Omicron, tasked by the Victoria Airport Authority with creating the Sidney Gateway commercial area, presented statistics showing that the majority of the money people from this area spend, is in places other than Sidney. He joined VAA President Geoff Dickson at a two-hour public presentation at the Mary Winspear Centre Thursday, March 17. “It is not about, and never will be, taking the business from downtown,” he said to a large crowd in the Charlie White Theatre. Laughlin’s presentation offered people a look at the type of businesses that are currently eyeing the property — from grocery and drug stores to appliance retailers, restaurants and medical offices — yet much of the information was repeated from a speech Laughlin gave to members of the Saanich Peninsula Chamber of Commerce back in January. Omicron is banking on a grocery chain to move into their anchor location at Gateway — a project worth an estimated $30 million. He said there are two companies at the table. Laughlin said two months ago that Omicron tends to maintain relationships with its commercial clients, and one could look at their Eagle Creek development in View Royal for clues. He noted that Sidney and the surrounding area is under served by grocery stores, maintaining that that will be the anchor of Gateway, should it proceed through the approval process with the Town of Sidney. Many of the questions from the audience involved the impact of Gateway on traffic

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A large crowd filled the Charlie White Theatre Thursday, March 17 to hear more about the proposed Sidney Gateway retail development from the Victoria Airport Authority and its contracted development firm, Omicron

SOS group to review Gateway Some Sidney residents and business owners will discuss the VAA/Omicron Gateway presentation tonight, March 23 at the Mary Winspear Centre at 6 p.m. Support Our Sidney (SOS), headed up by retail consultant Richard Talbot, stated its session will be on the “future of downtown Sidney” with a focus on potential Gateway tenants, traffic and impact. Steven Heywood/News staff

VAA President Geoff Dickson outlined the airport authority’s desire to create a retail site west of the Pat Bay Highway, across from the Mary Winspear Centre. in and around Sidney. Getting people across the Pat Bay Highway was a common concern. Laughlin noted that both Omicron and the VAA had different traffic consultants look at the intersection of Beacon Avenue and the highway and they came to similar conclusions. Left turn lanes off the highway would have to be widened and lengthened to ensure free flowing traffic. No roundabouts are being proposed on the highway, Dickson noted, but one on Beacon Avenue West at Galaran Road is in the plan. Dickson noted

that the Gateway site does not interfere with a proposed highway overpass plan established approximately five years ago by the Ministry of Transportation and Highways. Others expressed concern about the amount of empty retail space in downtown Sidney already and the potential negative impact of Gateway. Business owner Clive Tanner noted that with many vacancies and more commercial space already under construction, Gateway is five to 10 years too soon. “We need to mature in Sid-

ney,” Tanner said. Laughlin said their proposal is about trying to retain more shoppers in Sidney and, by “osmosis” the downtown core will reap the benefits of more people in town. “Competition doesn’t mean business failure,” he said. “Doing nothing exacerbates the status quo.” Omicron is paying for an independent study of the potential impact of Gateway on downtown Sidney businesses. Vancouver-based retail consulting firm Urbanics was hired to do the work. HowPLEASE SEE: Gateway application, page 8

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She added that Sidney Elementary School has also been great in informing the kids and Ethan’s friends on what’s going on, trying to get him to check in with everyone. Ethan won’t be able to return to school until September at the earliest. At the end of last month, Ethan was in remission from the chemo, however the team will continue to do aggressive forms of the treatment through the next few months. “This month March and April will be two of the most challenging periods of chemotherapy for him because they’re the hardest forms of it.” Massullo said she wanted to add a big thanks to Salon J and staff for holding their event, particularly to Hollie and her husband and kids as it was her idea to hold the event. In addition, she wanted to thank the Pryor’s and Kelsey Garside, as they started the GoFundMe pages, with Kelsey organizing the most recent event, which was held Monday at Boondocks Restaurant. People can donate at Ethan’s Gofundme pages at https://www.gofundme.com/qmn33grg or https:// www.gofundme.com/pznn2cg4. reporter@peninsulanewsreview.com

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Shortly after 3 a.m. on March 15, a 47-year old male was found deceased by Central Saanich Police as a result of a collision. The incident took place south bound on Highway 17, north of Mt. Newton Cross Road in Central Saanich. A man who was driving a black car drove into the back end of an unoccupied semi-trailer, which was parked along the shoulder of the road. The cause of the crash is ongoing and still being investigated by police. Those who have any information regarding this collision are encouraged to contact the Central Saanich Police Service at 250-652-4441 and refer to file number 16-858. — with files from the CS Police

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Roost gets a boost from B.C Buy Local North Saanich farm centre gets matching grant from B.C. Steven Heywood News staff

Bolstered by the popularity of the 100 Mile Diet program back when it was new, The Roost Farm Centre in North Saanich is hoping to keep people coming to the area to enjoy a farm experience. This time, they have put up $10,300 of their own money, to be matched by the provincial government under their Buy Local program. Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick was at The Roost March 16 for a quick look at one of the Vancouver Island farms using the program to help boost their fortunes. Owner of the Farm Centre, Dallas Bohl, says the Buy Local program was a way for The Roost to increase

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B.C. Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick, right, speaks with Hamish Crawford and Dallas Bohl of The Roost Farm Centre in North Saanich during a stop to promote the province’s Buy Local funding program. its marketing budget and reach potential customers on the mainland and else-

where. With his two daughters Mackenzie and Olivia in tow, Bohl and his business

partner, farmer Hamish Crawford,toured Letnick through The Roost’s fields

and mill facility. Bohl said the program has benefitted The Roost over the past year, helping them ensure a long-term viability of the farm and cafe. Crawford added the support of agriculture by the BC Liberals has been good, especially with the Buy Local program. “This sort of thing is good for local food supplies,” he said, adding the public seems happy with what the farm is doing. The Roost Farm Centre is hailed as the largest integrated grain farm on the Island, complete with granary, winery and bakery. In a statement, Letnick said Buy Local funding supports the efforts of agriculture producers, like The Roost, to continue to grow locally. And grow they shall. Bohl said The Roost is expanding. Work has already started on extending its frontage along East Saanich Road. Bohl said their storage

needs outgrew their current capacity, as did their wine production capability. They worked with the District of North Saanich on permits to expand the building up to the south hedge, making room for a total of 65 seats in their cafe and bakery. The space will also be licensed, to allow them to serve their own, locally-produced wine. Their milling equipment will soon be moved over to a new structure that was completed recently. Bohl said they are making the changes and growing The Roost to meet the demand of their customers right now. An earlier plan that would have seen The Roost add 10 farm stay rooms, a winery facility and more, was cancelled last year and their growth plan revised. Bohl added this work underway now will allow The Roost to grow in the future, if needed. He said the municipality was great to work with on their site plan revisions.

Tethered dog not abused: BCSPCA Steven Heywood News staff

The Greater Victoria BCSPCA is saying a dog seen on the Tsawout First Nation near Central Saanich was not abused. A photo of the dog, with a rope cinched around its waist and standing in a ditch filled with dirty water, circulated on social media. When they got word of the incident, the BCSPCA called the RCMP to investigate. Erika Paul, a senior animal protection officer with the Victoria BCSPCA, says after police took the dog back to its owners, they investigated the condition of the animal. “The owners explained that the dog had gotten out of its har-

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gotten caught in a 10-foot piece of nylon strapping that was attached to a concrete block. “We saw the dog,” she continued. “There was some chafing. We followed up with the vet for a general wellness exam.” Paul said the dog was found to be well, but skinny. “We do not believe it to be abuse, based on the information we received.” Paul said its was good that people were concerned for the safety of the dog and alerted others through social media. She did caution people, however, to not jump to conclusions about a situation and to allow officials like the RCMP or BCSPCA time to determine an animal’s condition.

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Jim Parker Publisher Steven Heywood Editor Janice Marshall Production Manager Marilou Pasion Circulation Manager

The Peninsula News Review is published by Black Press Ltd. | #103 - 9830 Second St., Sidney, B.C. V8L 3C6 | Phone: 250-656-1151 • Fax: 250-656-5526 • Web: www.peninsulanewsreview.com

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Gateway is taking off

s Gateway inevitable? That’s a question many people think they have the answer to. It was raised following the Thursday, March 17 presentation by the Victoria Airport Authority and Omicron, on the proposed retail shopping area on a chunk of vacant land in Sidney across the Pat Bay Highway from the Mary Winspear Centre. It was clear, first off, that both the Airport Authority President, Geoff Dickson, and Omicron’s Peter Laughlin spoke in terms that would seem like they are firm in their course of action. Since 2014, they have been crystal clear in their intent to seek a clear path to develop the site. And like the idea or hate it, Gateway could be one of the most important issues facing Sidney right now. It represents, if successful, a significant change in the look and feel of the town. For some, that look and feel includes more shoppers, more residents and increased prosperity and community sustainability. For others, it’s desolation on Beacon Avenue, a glut of traffic and enough change to possibly drive them out. Clearly, there are many opinions on this project. As there should be, due to its size and scope. It must face scrutiny because of its potential to change Sidney in a significant way. To credit the VAA and Omicron, they have been standing up and telling people exactly what they have planned. Now, residents are looking for leadership on the issue. So far, however, they are hearing little from their elected officials, who have fallen back on the position that they can’t say anything until the VAA applies to the approval process. Yes, the Town asked for an independent study on economic impacts. However, people are worried that’s a little too late. In that vacuum, people are turning to anyone who will back up their position — and that will further polarize the issue. With the Gateway plan under full steam, there’s no reason to stay quiet. The next steps could be only a month away at most. It’s time Sidney’s leaders stepped up to talk with their residents about this big change.

What do you think? Give us your comments by e-mail: editor@peninsulanewsreview.com or fax 250-656-5526. All letters must have a name and a telephone number for verification. The PENINSULA NEWS REVIEW is a member of the National Newsmedia Council, which is an independent organization established to deal with acceptable journalism practices and ethical behaviour. If you have concerns about editorial content, please contact: editor@peninsulanewsreview.com or 250-656-1151, ext. 128. If you are not satisfied with the response and wish to file a formal complaint, visit the web site at mediacouncil.ca or call toll-free 1-844-877-1163 for additional information.

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profiled a methamphetamine addict y recent columns on B.C.’s enrolled at Onsite, the belated struggle with the growing treatment addition to Vancouver’s westward migration of Insite supervised injection site. It transients have produced responses was his fifth try, which may have that fall mainly into two groups. something to do with the fact that The largest is people relieved that when he walks outside he is in the somebody is questioning the urban middle of Canada’s biggest street media narrative. That’s the one drug bazaar. where drifters, drug addicts, welfare Contrast that with shoppers and thieves are a facility called Baldy the victims, and working Hughes, a therapeutic people whose hard-earned community 30 km outside communities are being Prince George. It’s a degraded are the problem working farm, designed because of their selfish, to provide a year-long uncaring attitudes. program of abstinenceThen there are readers based therapy and so marinated in our nannymeaningful work. state education, media and It uses the traditional political system they object 12-step program to anything other than a Tom Fletcher developed by Alcoholics big-government response. B.C. Views Anonymous and Narcotics They tend to ask, what’s Anonymous, with peer your solution, Tom? support and group therapy. As someone who has lost one There’s a greenhouse for winter relative to heroin addiction and farming, livestock to tend and the almost lost another, I reflect on residents have designed and built the history of successful addiction a new horse stable. There’s also treatment. That is one of detox and a beekeeping project. Residents abstinence. can complete their high school That’s why I oppose the failed education, take first aid training and model of Vancouver’s Downtown learn basic computer skills. Eastside, where resources are What they can’t do is leave poured into concentrated housing unescorted during their treatment and “harm reduction” that program. They can’t bring drugs, perpetuate addiction, handouts and alcohol, weapons or phones with helplessness. Housing Minister Rich them. Coleman is rolling this out in other It’s a costly program, with a communities, in what I fear is an small number of spaces available effort to paper over the problem for on referral from B.C.’s social an election year. development ministry. Others can The Globe and Mail recently

finance it with the help of medical employment insurance. I mention this not to suggest it is a solution for every community, but to compare it with what the B.C. government is spending millions on. A news event was arranged to greet the first resident moving from Victoria’s squalid downtown tent camp to a refurbished nursing home. And who was the poster child for this project, hand-picked by the agency that runs the growing network of shelters in the area? He described himself as a former Edmonton resident who was hitchhiking around, going from shelter to shelter and ending up camped in the squat. He was impressed by the tidy room with three meals a day he was being given, in a “low barrier” facility where booze and drugs are brought in, no questions asked. What he was really looking forward to, in addition to accommodations, was an opportunity to kick back and play his favourite video game. That would be Grand Theft Auto, where your character runs around stealing cars, escaping police and meeting with criminal gangs. It’s popular with adolescents, which these days means anyone under 30. This is where your tax dollars are going. Waves of people come in, with key trouble spots being communities on the major highways coming into the Lower Mainland. Tom Fletcher is the legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

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LETTERS Sewage series: Practicality and cost effectiveness should govern avoid that and use Clover Point? I did ask Mayor Jensen at the first open house at the Ocean Pointe to clarify the McLoughlin Point zoning. He confirmed that it was initially approved, but a variance was needed as none of the engineering firms could fit the plant on it. They need site coverage at least four per cent less. So if there are two plants, one fits there. I think the CRD directors

I am pleased to see Black Press take this on. In my view investigative reporting on this issue is long overdue. I am surprised Saanich councillors Susan Brice and Judy Brownoff didn’t support the final option, nor Victoria Coun. Geoff Young and Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen. I read Coun. Young didn’t like the idea of digging up Cook Street to get the untreated sewage to Rock Bay, so why not

should have turned the whole issue over to the engineers and let them decide what is most practical and cost effective. I am against pumping or transporting sludge to Hartland and I think we should be able to use the treated Class “A” sludge. The CRD needs to explain the sludge treatment facility at the Viewfield Road property. I was told at a previous open house by an engineer that the CRD banned

local use of the treated sludge (it seems to be the same view on organic waste). I also question the need for long outfalls after the sewage is treated even to the secondary level. I think that needs to be explained. I think board members have themselves too involved in the solution to treatment. Practicality and cost effectiveness should govern. We have what we have, now show us what we can

do with it. Considering future growth in the Western Communities, I would plan for a plant there. They should at least reserve a site, if not construct a plant that could be enlarged. On Clover Point, I suspect the point is actually rock that was filled to level it. Could we not raise the level part? Paul L. Bishop Saanich

Readers respond: Readers in Greater Victoria respond to opening volley in Black Press’ series on sewage Sewage: Health of marine life in question I have been told by boaters that the marine environment around Victoria, specifically the south end of the Saanich Peninsula, is in much poorer health in terms of sea life than areas farther from Victoria. Those same people say the reason for this is the way we have been handling sewage over the years, and that the current system has not resulted in any improvement in the state of the oceans around the city. What puzzles me is if the oceanographers at UVic say the current system is just fine, they must have a different view of the state of the

oceans around Victoria, or at least a different view of its causes. So, two questions. Are the oceans around Victoria degraded compared to those around, for example, Sooke? And if so, what are the causes of that degraded state? Thanks for the series. The people of the region need to understand the issues and this series will contribute to that. Brent Beach Saanich

Sewage: Mistrust of CRD I’m very glad to see you are doing a more in-depth series on the sewage treatment issue. Although you may well be covering it in

one of the next articles, I noticed your timeline is missing what is probably the biggest bone of contention with Esquimalt residents about this project. You mentioned that STAG asked for the plant to be moved to McLoughlin Point, but didn’t note that this was intended for one of multiple small plants in a modern tertiary distributed system. Missing entirely is the CRD’s unilateral decision to put all the treatment in one secondary centralized plant at McLoughlin. Hosting the entire system as secondary only (plus the solids plant at Viewfield which you noted) was not acceptable to those in the neighbourhood. Too little space, too

much traffic, too much disruption, too close to Macaulay elementary ... and zero willingness by the CRD to address any of these issues. These details might seem small, but they, along with the fact that McLoughlin is in a tsunami zone, are the main reason the rezoning was refused. There are still many of us who would be happy to host a smaller neighbourhood-friendly tertiary plant, but the past few years of being continually out-voted by other municipalities in order to force us to take the whole thing has turned many citizens against having any plant at all – they simply don’t trust the CRD anymore. The one thing everyone can agree on is that the last few years

have been a monumental waste of time and money, with incompe-

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Central Saanich ratepayers group disbands A history of battles with the municipal council and an ongoing legal dispute leads to lack of interest Carlie Connolly News staff

The Resident Ratepayers of Central Saanich Society (RRoCSS) is no more. At a recent annual general meeting in February, nobody wanted to take on any society board positions, leading to a motion to disband. “I think it’s too bad … all volunteer organizations are finding it harder and harder to get people to do stuff,” said the former President of the Association, Ian Cameron. The Central Saanich Rate Payers Association, said Cameron, folded in the 1990s as there weren’t enough people interested and not much going on. “And a lot of the impetus behind the society always over the years was development, most of the members were concerned with development and taxes,” Cameron told the PNR. In the ‘90s, he continued, there was a fairly anti-development council, part of what Cameron said led the rate payers to dissolve. In 2008, following a municipal election which saw a new, prodevelopment council, individuals got together, rejuvenating the Society. Cameron said during that first meeting, people were less concerned about taxes and development and more concerned about Central Saanich being a

nice place. “And so you ended up with a divided association. A lot of people wanted to keep council’s feet to the fire and have open council meetings and record what was going on and who voted on what, and a number of people wanted to basically run a welcome wagon,” he said. That’s when the new group formed: the Resident Ratepayers of Central Saanich Society. The Society, essentially formed to debate various issues with the District of Central Saanich over land use, took the District to court over proposed farmland redevelopment, losing the case and subsequent appeal. RRoCSS were involved in three legal issues according to Cameron. The first was over the redevelopment of portions of the then-Vantreight farm. The Society took the municipality to court, saying they had abrogated their own community plan. “The courts decided in favour of the municipality and said basically the OCP, in spite of what anyone might think, is not really a legal document and if council decides they don’t want to do it they don’t have to,” said Cameron. Another issue was the plans by the Peninsula Co-op to put up a new building at the corner of West Saanich and Keating roads, which many residents

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Park would top underground plant at Clover Point

Esquimalt takes an uneasy second look at McLoughlin

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Scaled-down site would take western flows only; Viewfield site surplus

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Clover Point wasn’t on the public’s radar during the most recent consultation process on sewage treatment options. And if everything goes according to plan for the Capital Regional District, a Clover Point facility will remain out of public view once completed. The CRD is moving ahead EPORT with a proposal for a two-plant CIAL R E P S option to meet the region’s wastewater treatment needs – with plants constructed at Clover and either McLoughlin or Macaulay points, near the location of current sewage HE outfalls. IN T The Clover Point plant would be located on a 1.25-hectare parcel of land on the hillside above the current parking lot. That land was granted to the City of Victoria from for a single plant at McLoughlin after that the federal government in 1988 on the option was rejected by Esquimalt in 2014. condition that it be used as parkland. While some expressed concerns “Clover Point has to be underground over locating a plant in a residential to be socially acceptable, and it has to neighbourhood at an oceanfront park, be done in a way that doesn’t smell, committee chair Lisa Helps called that doesn’t cause major disruptions for a “20th-century argument.” The Victoria the neighbourhood,” said Colin Plant, a mayor said we now see treatment plants Saanich councillor who sits on the core in the middle of downtowns and in close area liquid waste management committee. proximity to residences. It was Plant who suggested that CRD Wayne Hollohan, chair of the Fairfield staff should investigate locating a plant Gonzales Community Association land use on the site. A previous option for a solo committee, said the organization didn’t treatment plant at Rock Bay had become learn about the proposed Clover Point bogged down with concerns over cost, particularly $250 million in pipes to convey plant until he received a March 9 email about the site gaining conditional approval treated effluent to existing outfalls. Plant sees Clover Point as a compromise from the CRD earlier that day. “This idea is so new even to the CRD, between those who wanted a single plant that they do not have any actual plans at McLoughlin and those who wanted for it (including) how much space will a distributed option with a number of be required,” said Hollohan in a letter smaller plants. “I suggested it as a way to to Victoria council, suggesting the city spread the burden of sewage treatment,” is not following its own policy on civic he said, adding there is no social licence engagement. The association doesn’t speak on behalf of the community, but provides an opportunity for residents to voice concerns. Hollohan has his own worries about the future of this park he visits with his dog on a daily basis. “I would say that section of Clover Point probably gets upwards of four times the amount of people as Beacon Hill Park. It is Construction of the Sooke colnow becoming the crown jewel of Victoria lection system and wastewater with regards to tourists and people coming treatment plant began in 2004 and … to walk their dog,” he said. the system was commissioned in November 2005. Individual domestic and commercial hook-ups Courtesy Capital Regional District began in January 2006 and conOverhead shot shows areas tinued throughout 2006 and 2007, of Clover Point that would with the majority completed by be used for an underground December 2006. This secondary treatment system sewage treatment plant. services a core area of approximately 5,500 residents.

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This two-headed compromise has a cost of $250 million or so more than a single-site option. — Victoria Coun. Geoff Young Helps said the federal land grant serves as an assurance that Clover Point will look almost identical to what it is today, with the addition of such amenities as washrooms and public art. Residents may not realize what is at Clover Point now. Underneath that grassy hillside where people fly kites and walk their dogs, is a pumping station, where 50 million litres of raw sewage is filtered, then pumped through the 1.2-kilometre outfall into Juan de Fuca Strait. The pump station, built in the 1970s, serves close to 200,000 people. The new treatment plant would be built to a footprint that would meet requirements until at least 2045. It would initially handle flows of up to 48 million litres/day and treat the majority of eastside sewage. The treated effluent at Clover would be pumped through a new 250-metre outfall, with the existing longer outfall reserved for wet weather flows. An advanced treatment plant at Clover

Point is estimated to cost about $220 million of the $1.05-billion total project cost, although directors are confident those costs can be reduced. But hurdles remain before construction gets underway. Perhaps the biggest is getting the site rezoned from its designation for single family residences. Victoria Coun. Geoff Young favours a single site at McLoughlin Point and is confident the rezoning will fail. “From the perspective of the taxpayer, we would be better off flipping a coin to determine a single site. This two-headed compromise has a cost of $250 million or so more than a single-site option,” he said. He expects to hear vocal opposition for the plan at the upcoming public hearing. Helps said Clover Point was among the initial sites identified by Victoria council in 2015, and was green-lighted during the first phase of public consultations. Clover Point has cleared the first road bump in the long path ahead, with Victoria council approving a motion establishing a number of conditions. Among them is the presentation by the CRD of a concept drawing of the underground plant to the Fairfield Gonzales Community Association. The project must pass other regulatory hurdles, including a public hearing. If approvals are received, the plant is expected to take about 18 months to construct, with Victoria sharing in $20 million in public amenities provided to host communities.

Nearly two years ago, the citizens of Esquimalt spoke loud and clear – McLoughlin Point was not the appropriate site for the Capital Regional District’s $783-million sewage treatment plant. Esquimalt councillors were met with a standing ovation when they not only rejected the shoreline site, but unanimously slammed the door on any future proposals. Despite the closed door, the CRD put McLoughlin back on the table due to the cost and disruption of alternatives. This time, however, it’s not being considered as the sole site for a treatment plant, but part of a two-facility solution that also includes Victoria’s Clover Point and allows for a future site on the West Shore. A DNDowned section of Macaulay Point is part of the recommendation, but only as an alternative to McLoughlin. Given the history, the move to revisit McLoughlin didn’t sit well with Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins, but now she’s in favour of moving ahead with the new plan to see how council will respond. She also wants to hear from the private sector, which may propose lower cost and more environmentally friendly solutions. “With me or without me, the committee was going to have brought forward a site at McLoughlin, no matter what Esquimalt had said. There was nothing I could say that would have made any difference and that’s frustrating,” said Desjardins. “I am hearing from residents that there is an opportunity, given the right circumstances, to reconsider. I think the fact that it is not a single site option is really part of that discussion.” Surrounded by Department of National Defence (DND) property, the CRD-owned McLoughlin site is a barren, fenced-off piece of land in an otherwise treed area, hiding it from public view except from the water. There are a few nearby homes used by DND personnel, but otherwise the site — a former oil tank farm — is isolated. It’s also located around the corner from the Macaulay Point outfall. Nick Kovacs, chairman of the Esquimalt Resident’s Association, was surprised to see McLoughlin thrown back into the mix. Citizens are concerned, he noted, but are waiting to see what’s in the details this

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Mayor Barb Desjardins stands at Saxe Point in Esquimalt.

I am hearing from residents that there is an opportunity, given the right circumstances, to reconsider. — Esquimalt Mayor Barbara Desjardins on McLoughlin Point time around. “If you build a modern facility, then McLoughlin Point makes sense. It’s away from the community, it’s an industrial site – what else are you going to build there?” said Kovacs, who favours tertiary treatment using a distributed model. “If certain conditions are met, I would feel much more comfortable, but again, the devil is in the details.” In 2008, Esquimalt began lobbying the CRD to explore a potential sewage treatment facility at McLoughlin Point rather than Macaulay Point. The following year, however, council pulled its support from McLoughlin and advised the CRD to explore other alternatives.

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The Saanich Peninsula wastewater plant is a secondary treatment facility with the capability to produce Class A biosolids. The plant commenced operation in 2000, replacing three individual CRD sewage treatment plants that were constructed in the early 1970’s. In 2011, the treatment plant’s heat recovery system was commissioned. It recovers thermal energy from the effluent and supplies hot water to heat the Panorama Recreation Centre pool.

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McLoughlin Point is a fenced-off, isolated piece of land in Esquimalt.

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Nonetheless, the CRD moved ahead on the project, and later purchased a property on Viewfield Road in Esquimalt for $17 million as a potential site for biosolids processing. The McLoughlin Point site was bought from Imperial Oil for $4.6 million. But in a second round of public hearings in March 2014, more than 100 residents from Esquimalt, Saanich, Victoria and elsewhere in the region spoke against the project, citing concerns with the size and environmental impact. A few weeks later council rejected rezoning the site, noting the CRD failed to deliver requested information such as details on First Nations consultations, committee meeting minutes and an independent tsunami report. The CRD was forced to go back to the drawing board, but first appealed to the province to mandate the rezoning of McLoughlin Point. The province refused to meddle in the ongoing sewage saga, even though about $60 million had been spent. Now, however, the province has agreed to help facilitate the process in order to move the project forward. The McLoughlin site still needs a green light from the municipality. In looking back, Desjardins feels there was a lack of respect for the community and that residents still don’t trust the CRD. McLoughlin had been offered as a proactive solution, she explained, with residents seeing it as an opportunity for a possible distributed model with multiple plants. But the CRD sewage committee, basing its decision on staff recommendations, went with a centralized plant there instead. “From there on, it was all about ‘that’s going to happen, you better accept it and by the way we’re not going to give you any mitigation,’” Desjardins said. “Had they done it differently, had they listened to the community and what the needs were, I really believe that process might have ended up differently. “The reality is, it was off the rails long before we made the decision, and that was because of the lack of working with a community … Esquimalt has never been NIMBY and yet it’s painted as NIMBY. It’s always been about ‘let’s get the best solution.’”

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Sewage treatment south of the border Olympia, Wash. The Budd Inlet Treatment Plant was constructed in 1949 and has been upgraded three times, the latest time in 2004, to meet changing needs such as moving to secondary treatment. Servicing 108,000 people, the treatment plant’s estimated replacement value is $500 million. The modern 32,500-square-foot LOTT (Lacey, Olympia, Tumwater and Thurston) Regional Services Centre is the public face of the facility. Reclaimed water is produced and used in the plant and the LOTT centre. The plant (web: lottcleanwater.org/plant.htm) also reuses methane gas to fuel its operations and the services centre. Biosolids are captured for use as fertilizer and soil amendment for surrounding areas.

Snohomish County, Wash. Commissioned in 2011 at a cost of $1.86 billion, the Brightwater Wastewater Treatment Plant was the largest clean water capital project in King County in 40 years. Built on 114 acres, it services a population of 189,000 and has planned capacity for 435,000. In addition to a secondary treatment plant, conveyance pipes and a marine outfall, the multi-faceted project also includes a 15,000-sq. ft. education and community centre (online: 1.usa. gov/1S6Xvq4), the restoration of salmon habitat and the creation of 70 acres of public open space.

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Park would top underground plant at Clover Point

Esquimalt takes an uneasy second look at McLoughlin

Sewage infrastructure already beneath hillside

Scaled-down site would take western flows only; Viewfield site surplus

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Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps stands at Clover Point, site of a proposed underground sewage treatment plant.

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Small Expressions Art Show

Donna Jean expressing herself at small show Carlie Connolly

“I couldn’t do it on my own so I took some workshops and I’ve been loving it ever since,” she said. So what does Jean

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While during her visit to the Tulista Gallery’s Small Expressions Art Show, North Saanich artist Donna Jean just couldn’t put the brush down. The show places a few different artists into the Community Arts Centre at Tulista Gallery in Sidney each week. The Small Expressions show forces artists to think small, which means they can enter work no bigger than 12 inches by 12 inches. When visited by the PNR, Jean was busy painting while talking to other gallery visitors. “I just decided I would do something,” she said. “I didn’t even know what I was going to do (at the time). “I just started out with pale colours, no specific plan as to where I was going to go, I just kind of let it happen and then a man appeared in the painting …” laughed the artist who works with acrylic paint. Jean has two paintings left in the show, both floral subject matter, which she typically

love so much about it? “Well when you get one that really works, it’s so exciting.” The Small Expressions Art Show will con-

tinue until March 30. The show runs Tuesday to Sunday at the Tulista Gallery, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Environment In the last parliament, May submitted a private member’s bill calling for government to perform environmental assessments whenever proposed resource development projects change. She suggested that government and proponents to this work ahead of time to anticipate and minimize damage to the environment. “My private member’s bill would require an advance assessment of the impact of changes and regulation; our tax polices, our laws for what would their impact be on small business to anticipate in advance and minimize extra paper-

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MP for Saanich Gulf Islands and federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May gave a talk at the 104th Saanich Peninsula Chamber of Commerce AGM. work, extra unintended workload on small business across Canada,” May explained. She added she plans on reintroducing that bill (it died in between sittings of parliament) and expects to have it ready for consideration at the 42nd parliament, just after Easter. One of the things May touched on was tourism businesses. She said this is of interest to her, as her family opened a similar business when she was still a teenager. “I’m very attached to tourism as an industry and I think it’s because of my personal background that I was paying so much attention as Canada dropped from number eight in the world’s most visited countries to now number 17,” she said. The policy choices made by the previous government didn’t

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help, she said, adding a lot of that “precipitous drop” had to do with insisting on passports at the U.S./Canadian border. As well, May said the elimination of the GST/ HST rebates for nonCanadians who crossed the border, also didn’t make sense. “The previous government decided, almost no one is using this so let’s cancel it. In other words, it’s a good will gesture that cost us almost nothing, let’s cancel it.” Changes to seasonal rules for unemployment insurance weren’t great either, she added, saying she has been keeping a running tab on all of the things done under the previous administration that didn’t help tourism. “The one that I found the most gobsmacking was that for the last number of years, the

previous federal government decided not to advertise at all for tourism in Canada in the U.S market. Now that’s our biggest market and it made no sense to me that they prioritized China and Mexico for advertising, especially since they required Mexican visitors to obtain Visas.” In trying to reverse those decisions, May said she has pushed on the tourism file. She said she personally got politician and former Minister of Finance, Joe Oliver to put money into tourism advertising in the U.S. Federal budget In May’s budget submissions to the new Minister of Finance Bill Morneau, she said she ran through some of the things she advocated, including putting more money into tourism.

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