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Money, science continue to hold readers’ attention Tens of millions of dollars have been spent on the Capital Regional District’s (CRD) sewage treatment program since 2006, but not all of those expenditures are easily accounted for. And since 2013, taxpayers have been contributing to the CRD’s sewage fund, designed to help defray the final cost of the treatment, but the $30 million so far put into that account has been exhausted. In today’s third instalment of our five-part series, Sewage in the CRD, we look at what’s been spent and what taxpayers are projected to pay for the option currently on the table. In recent days, we’ve also heard from many letter writers who have implored us to address the science behind the need to treat — or not. We hear from a pair of former University of Victoria marine environment specialists about Victoria’s unique ocean characteristics, and describe the various types of treatment communities can undertake. See pages A14 and A15

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The City of Victoria is looking to increase the vibrancy of the downtown core by allowing more restaurants to create

sidewalk cafes. City council is looking at improving the process and making it easier for restaurants to apply for a sidewalk cafe licence. Sidewalk cafes are placed or fixed seating in front of or in the surrounding area of a restaurant, which serve customers as an extension of the existing establishment. Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps said the proposed bylaw changes ease the process for

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public spaces activated downtown.” Other proposed changes include allowing the use of an adjacent parking stall and turning it into a parklet, similar to the one on Fort Street outside the Dutch Bakery that opened last year. Currently, there are more than 90 sidewalk cafes in Victoria. PLEASE SEE: Sidewalk cafes, Page A3

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There was a buzz in the air at Esquimalt council chambers Monday night as mayor Barb Desjardins announced a deal has been made to proceed with the development of the Esquimalt Village Project (EVP) in the heart of the township. “This is a very big deal to us. We view this project as the catalyst for development in Esquimalt for years to come,” said Desjardins, noting Esquimalt hasn’t seen a lot of newer developments, but rather infill and townhouses instead. “We have been told many times that this is a unique piece of property in that how many communities do you know that have their local government, their rec centre, their centre of business, their library and their shopping centre all within a three-block radius?” Formerly the site of the public works yard and original municipal hall, the property is 87,000 square feet in size and located adjacent to the municipal hall at 1229 Esquimalt Rd.

The development calls for a 17,000 squarefoot town square that will be surrounded by a six-story building with 100 condos and 34 rental properties situated above commercial space on the ground level.

“This is a very big deal for us. We view this as the catalyst for development in Esquimalt for years to come.” - Barb Desjardins

Another five-story building will provide just under 50,000 square feet of office space that will also include a new library on the ground level. A public walkway is also planned complete with $300,000 worth of artwork paid for by the developer. The township has signed a memorandum of understanding with Aragon Investments Ltd. to proceed with the acquisition and development of the EVP lands. During the next several months, preparations will be made to transfer the lands to Aragon. Construction is expected to commence in

the spring of 2017 and completed within two years. Aragon is also the owner of the English Inn in Esquimalt. Company spokesperson Michael Lowe said the EVP was a “no brainer” since the development is so close to downtown Victoria. The EVP has a lengthy history, with the process beginning in 2005. Consultants were brought in with concept ideas, but council opted to focus on other properties instead. The focus shifted back to the EVP in 2008 when there was a change in the economic climate, so council started doing everything it could to get the property ready. Requests for proposals were finally issued last fall, which made Desjardins tingle with excitement. “We’ve done a lot of ground work in behind the scenes to make sure what came forward provided a developer with some certainty,” said Desjardins. “This will mark a major milestone for the township.” The public will have opportunities to provide their input on the project. For more information on visit esquimalt.ca. editor@vicnews.com

Sidewalk cafes increase vibrancy of downtown Continued from Page A1

Kunal Ghose, owner of Fishhook restaurant on Fort Street, said he welcomes changes to the bylaw. “I think it’s great. It’s a smart decision. It will be good for tourism. People get to experience more restaurants than they would have if more places allow people to sit outside and have a beer,” he said.

Fishhook has tables and chairs set up outside to accommodate four people yearround, and is in the process of applying for a licence to expand its sidewalk cafe. “I think if we can enclose it and licence it and maybe put a heater in between the two tables, it would be great for business. It makes the place look more busy and vibrant, having people sit outside,” Ghose said. “People seek patios

out in this town.” La Taquisa on Blanshard Street also has a yearround sidewalk cafe that accommodates roughly nine people and gets especially busy in the summer. Kitchen manager Patrick Dias said allowing more sidewalk cafes is beneficial to the city. “I think it’s great. It’s perfect for a city like Victoria, in my opinion, because we are so focused on food in the city and

to be able to give that extra option for people when they come out to eat, I think people love it,” he said. The staff report will come to council in April and Helps hopes city council can adopt the changes before May in order to be ready for the upcoming tourism season. kendra.wong@vicnews.com

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Disappointed. That’s how Brian Lepine feels whenever he thinks about the possibility of a sewage treatment plant being constructed at Victoria’s beloved Clover Point. He’s not alone. The Fairfield resident is among a large group of citizens in the midst of a letter-writing and petition campaign to stop a plant from being constructed at the site. Lepine always knew Clover Point would play some part in the ongoing sewage saga since it already has a small pump station underground. But he never thought the site could be ripped up again to potentially host a much larger facility, causing significant disruptions to the community. “Council argues it’s going to be turned back to a park, but that will be three years and in the meantime you are going to fracture this community and that really bothers me,” said Lepine, adding hundreds of people in the community are against the proposal. “I’ve heard the (Esquimalt) mayor planting her feet and saying this is not going to happen (at McLoughlin Point)... We don’t have that (in Victoria) for some reason.” Earlier this month, the Capital Regional District (CRD) approved a two-plant tertiary treatment system with facilities

at Clover Point in Victoria and McLoughlin or Macaulay points in Esquimalt. The cost is more than $1 billion. According to CRD staff, a sewage treatment plant at Clover Point would be constructed underground so it’s out of sight from the public like the pump station currently there. Construction, however, would likely take a couple years to complete. The CRD’s plan has been submitted to Victoria and Esquimalt council for discussion. Victoria has since requested a meeting between the CRD and Fairfield/Gonzales Community Association landuse committee (CALUC). The CRD will make a presentation to Esquimalt council on April 11. Esquimalt’s Mayor Barb Desjardins is in favour of the two-site approach and hearing what the private sector has to say. But other township residents aren’t so keen. A few neighbourhood associations near McLoughlin Point are encouraging citizens to write their local politicians, citing a drop in property values and odor problems should a plant be constructed at the site. The Victoria Sewage Treatment Alliance has been leaving pamphlets on Esquimalt citizen’s doorsteps, stating nothing better than McLoughlin Point has been

proposed during extensive public consultation during the last nine years. It further claims that taxpayers will be spending an extra $264 million if two plants are built instead of one. For Victoria Mayor Lisa helps, concerns like odor and property values are part of the common myths associated with sewage treatment plants. “I think the biggest myth is that it’s going to be ugly, it’s going to be stinky with trucks coming and going...It won’t stink because the technology has changed from the first systems that were built,” said Helps, noting one of the items in the project charter is that a sewage treatment facility will integrate seamlessly into neighbourhoods. “There will be disruption during construction, but there are wastewater treatment facilities in other residential neighbourhoods, underneath residential neighbourhoods and right in downtowns, so I would encourage people to be curious and interested as to what wastewater facilities can be in the 21st century.” If a plant is going to be built in Victoria, Helps wants residents to have input and codesign what that facility could look like. She doesn’t believe it’s about convincing the public to get on board, but rather inviting citizens to participate in the process. editor@vicnews.com

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When Rennaat Marchard woke at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, he couldn’t believe what he was seeing on the news. Flashing across the screen were images of the bodies of people who were wounded in a terrorist attack in Belgium’s capital city Tuesday morning. Brussels was hit by a pair of bombs that exploded around 7 a.m. local time — one at the departure area of the Zaventem international airport and another roughly 40 minutes later at the Maelbeek subway station near the headquarters of the European Union. The bombs killed at least 31 people and wounded as many as 190. The Islamic State group has since claimed responsibility for the attack, saying its members detonated suicide vests.

“I think the world is shocked when they see this kind of act. It’s innocent people who are the victims here.” - Rennaat Marchard

“It’s unbelieveable for the people in Belgium and the world. I think the world is shocked when they see this kind of act. It’s innocent people who are the victims here,” Marchard said. Marchard’s daughter is currently travelling in Europe, but was able to text message her father to let him know she was okay. His two sisters and mother are also in Belgium — his sister was on her way to work in Brussels, but was not injuried in the blast.

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“It’s strange to say that I’m almost not surprised anymore. There’s a lot of shock,” he said. “The fact that this happened is not a shock to me.” A month ago, Marchard returned to Belgium to visit his mother and even then noticed heightened security in the airport where the attacks occured. Now, the family is thinking twice about heading to Europe. Marchand’s son originally planned to head to France for the Euro Cup in June, but has since cancelled the trip. The bombings come a few days after a fugitive from November’s Paris attacks was arrested after a shootout with police in Brussels. kendra.wong@vicnews.com

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“I care genuinely about the long-term welfare of the horses and the fact that this industry perpetuates a desire to continue to breed animals just to be used and exploited in this way.” The petition also states there have been more than 20 collisions involving horse-drawn carriages in Victoria in the last two decades. In August 2012, a horse operated by Tally Ho Carriage Tours was bumped by a tour bus, sending it into a frenzy. The horse bucked, throwing the driver and one passenger off the carriage, while another passenger was left in the carriage as the horse took off in a gallop. In a similar incident in 2014, a horse bolted down Government Street, injuring its driver and colliding with two cars and a motorcycle. Please see: Mayor does not support ban, Page A17

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Sewage series readers getting involved From Langford and Saanich, to Oak Bay and Esquimalt, Black Press readers are speaking out. What is happening is exactly what we hoped would transpire when we sat down to plan our investigation into sewage treatment in the Capital Regional District (CRD). Since the five-part series launched a week ago, we’ve seen you become even more engaged in the process and provide new insights into a regional problem that has been debated around political committee tables for more than 20 years. In our introductory story, we inferred that the majority of people support the idea that we need to follow federal wastewater rules and simply get on with finding a way to treat our sewage. But many of the letters we’ve received in the past week have been statements of both frustration and outright anger at the actions local politicians and CRD staff have taken in recent weeks, months and years. Readers say those two groups should pay more attention to marine scientists, who argue that the conditions around our outfalls provide enough dilution to limit the deleterious effects of untreated sewage being introduced into the ocean environment. But we’re not so naive as to think people are solely focused on the science of this situation. The billion-dollar plus cost of the current proposals is weighing heavily on readers’ minds as well, not to mention the prospect of ripping up a popular destination like Clover Point, or retooling the unpopular decision to put a single plant at McLoughlin Point in Esquimalt. While the project cost estimates offered to the CRD sewage committee are rough at best — staff had barely a week to pull them together — the price tag of treatment has people worried. And it’s evident that for some regional residents, the “why” of the need to treat is still not clear enough. We’re going to continue to ask questions, even after our series is done. The Victoria News is a member of the National Newsmedia Council, which is an independent organization established to deal with acceptable journalistic practices and ethical behaviour. If you have concerns about editorial content, please contact: editor@vicnews.com or 250-480-3265. 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.

Readers respond: Sewage in the CRD Esquimalt resident points to 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. There was no consultation with citizens or even council prior to this change being made. Up to that point, most local residents (excluding ‘no-treatment’ people, who are a minority) were not opposed to hosting one of several modern plants. Hosting the entire system as secondary only (plus the solids plant at Viewfield which you noted) was not acceptable to those in the neighbourhood, which has only residential road access past the local elementary school. Too little space, too much traffic, too much disruption, too close to Macaulay elementary, less than 300 metres to DND

married quarters, too many worries about dated secondary technology 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 incompetence only being outdone by PR budgets. Meagan Klaassen Esquimalt

Science being ignored by officials After following this issue closely for 10 years, my opinion is that we shouldn’t build a plant (or plants) at all. The primary reason is based on scientific evidence, which proves beyond

any doubt that screened sewage discharges are dealt with efficiently and safely by the natural daily purging of tidal seawater and fresh water which mixes in the strait and then goes out to sea. Testing by marine scientists shows the liquid at the end of the deepsea outflows is 99 per cent clear water. Why is it that our local politicians and the majority of citizens, accept the science of climate change but refuse to consider scientific facts supporting our natural sewage system? It also operates successfully in many places around the world which are lucky enough to have the perfect hydraulic dynamics that we in Victoria enjoy. And why is the open letter to CRD signed by a dozen or so UVic scientists, who recommend we keep our existing system, being dismissed? If the scientific evidence isn’t enough, my second reason for concern is that if a couple of plants are built, the estimated $1 billion cost will end up at two or three times that. There is evidence of this happening with most major projects in which government has a hand. This could well cost each household $1,000 to $1,500 more per year in property taxes or whatever other scheme is concocted to recover the costs. Continued on Page A9

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Questioning politicians’ intentions is crucial Thank you for doing the series on the sewage issue in Victoria. I have several comments, as follows. First, the sequence of articles may be wrong if they don’t start by examining the rationale for treatment and the actual science that suggests there is very limited net benefit from it. It’s true that governments want treatment, but as has recently been pointed out by others, the environmental situation in the Strait of Juan de Fuca is clearly not high risk, but rather, quite low risk. Spending a billion dollars on a low risk discharge seems like it bears investigation. Second, the article on Halifax was interesting and useful, but the geography is not mentioned, and is relevant. Halifax is on a relatively narrow channel leading to an enclosed basin; not the same situation at all. Also, the shoreline contamination there was resolved with treatment, but here, there are no plans to fix the actual culprits of that, the combined sewers in Oak Bay. So we could spend a billion dollars and still get shoreline contamination there. The press has focused on the machinery of the political decision-making on this issue, as if it was accepted as given that the politicians are actually right, and know what they are talking about. To not be questioning the fundamentals of why they are so intent on pushing this project seems to me to be wasting a journalistic opportunity. I believe the public is way out ahead of the local politicians in understanding that spending a huge amount of public money for limited net benefit is simply unacceptable. Brian Wilkes Saanich

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draw inspiration and eventually find her sound. Johnston met Mellett after she graduated from high school at a Victoria music festival. Shortly after, the duo moved to Toronto so Johnston could pursue a career in music, develop a sound and find a band to play with in a more wide open, unfamiliar space. “I just really love (music) as a platform for communication, feelings and philosophy and just an open space for people to take what they will from something that you have to say,” Johnston said. “The last few years have been a time for me to go through that thought process and figuring out how I feel about it (love).” After making Toronto their permanent home (Brandon now goes to school in the city), the couple returned to Victoria to get married. They were wed at Dales Art Gallery on Dec. 22 in front of family and friends. Using her new relationships as inspiration, Johnston hopes to have The Trouble with Teeth completed by the end of the year or in early 2017. kendra.wong@vicnews.com

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For a few moments every day, Paul McNamara stands at his window and watches crows flock to his yard. McNamara, a 68-year-old artist, has a suet outside his window for smaller birds, however, he constantly sees crows trying to reach the food. “They seem to be one of the more intelligent birds,” he said. “It's amazing what the crows will do to get to the suet. They'll literally stand on their heads. One will hold it upside down and they co-operate to get what they want.” Crows have become the inspiration behind McNamara's latest piece of artwork — a birdhouse — that will be auctioned off at There's No Place Like Home, a fundraiser to help six privatelysponsored Syrian refugee families living in Victoria. McNamara has participated in auctions for other causes and tries to connect the work of art to the auction. With his birdhouse, McNamara wanted to create a sense of compassion towards refugees. On one panel, McNamara used acrylic to paint a crow in distress. On the next panel, another crow comes in to the rescue

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A birdhouse, painted by local artist Paul McNamara, is one of 145 birdhouses that will be auctioned off at There’s No Place Like Home, a fundraiser for Syrian refugee families on Tuesday, March. 29. to console the other crow. “We've all been exposed to these images about the Syrian refugee crisis and probably all Canadians

to use one of my skills to raise money for those who are now our neighbours.” The fundraiser is a joint effort between six Anglican parishes

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have thought 'what would that be like for me if I had no home and no country',” he said. “It's the nature of human beings, and other entities, to support one another. Doing this birdhouse is an opportunity for me

— St. George's, Christ Church Cathedral, St. John the Divine, St. Dustan in Gordon Head, St. Barnabas, and St. Mary the Virgin — and includes 145 birdhouses painted by local artists to be auctioned off at the event. Some birdhouses

have been painted by artists, and students from St. Michael's University School, Glenlyon Norfolk and Camosun College, while other birdhouses have been created from glass, seaweed, bamboo and ceramics. Ginny Glover said they chose birdhouses to help launch Victorians into spring. “It's just really a celebration of all of the outpouring of support from the artistic community as well as the greater community in Victoria and how amazing everyone has been at donating their time and energy to Syrian families coming in,” Glover said. Funds raised will go towards the cost of accommodation for the families. The fundraiser takes place on Tuesday, March 29 at 7 p.m. at the Inn at Laurel Point. Tickets are $50 and can be purchased at the door, at the six parishes involved or online at birdhousesforrefugees.brownpapertickets.com. kendra.wong@vicnews.com

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There’s one plant to treat CAPITAL COSTS the sewage and$1,088,000,000 another to ANNUAL OPERATING treat COSTSthe political sensibilities, (2030) and that’s not good public $22,810,000 policy.

LOCAL COSTS Capital residents may have after Grants noticed a sewage levy on their $605,500,000

— Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen TOTAL ANNUAL COSTS $69,331,955

ANNUAL DEBT $46,521,955

FEDERAL& PROVINCIAL Grants $482,500,000

CONSTRUCTION COSTS ANNUAL COSTS Arnold Lim/Black Press

Money at heart of treatment issue ESTIMATED ANNUAL COSTS

Two-plant solution was a compromise Dan Ebenal

Nailing down a firm number, however, is easier said than done. The consultants were asked to come up with cost Money is the overriding estimates for the current issue in finding a solution to proposal in a very short time the Capital Region’s sewage frame – the Clover Pointtreatment challenge. And McLoughlin option surfaced only the big fear for the region’s a few days before the core area residents and their political liquid waste management representatives is seeing tax committee voted dollars flushed down to move forward the toilet. with that option. That fear is SPECIAL The hope well grounded REPORT around the in reality, with board table more than $65 is that the million spent $1.05 billion so far on the cost can project, which be reduced remains in the IN TH when preliminary E submissions design stage. are invited from Almost half of the private sector. those funds ($27.79 “I think we truly million) are for land are looking at a worst-case purchases – including $17 scenario,” said Saanich Mayor million for a Viewfield Road Richard Atwell, vice-chair of the property no longer in the CRD’s committee. plans for sewage treatment – Bartlett argues the final costs while $12 million was spent to could easily go the other way. complete the Craigflower pump “It seems rarely do projects station in View Royal. come in on budget, it’s the Those costs have caused nature of the business. The Blue trepidation about the estimated Bridge is an example of that,” $1.05-billion cost for the he said, pointing to rising steel preferred two-plant option at costs or a tumbling Canadian McLoughlin/Macaulay and dollar as variables that cannot Clover points. be controlled. “It’s a huge drain on the Brian Grover is among the taxpayers’ pockets, and basically local residents who have been the numbers are in a bloody closely following the issue in muddle,” said Stan Bartlett, with recent years. Grover, a civil Grumpy Taxpayers of Greater engineer specializing in water Victoria. resources, said residents are Bartlett, a Victoria resident looking for value for their money. who chairs the group of several “My impression is that up until hundred taxpayers, said it’s the very recent days, that’s been CRD’s responsibility to provide kind of a foreign concept for detailed and understandable most of the policy-makers and numbers to the public. their consultants,” he said. “My “With the numbers being hope is that the (people) who bandied about, are these sewage are making a decision will be treatment costs soft numbers? looking to get the best bang for Are they hard numbers? Are the buck, meaning the highest they outright guesses? That’s necessary level of treatment at certainly the bottom line for us.”

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water bills or property taxes for the past several years. But the $30 million raised so far won’t be going towards the billion-dollar solution to the region’s sewage woes. That money has already been spent, along with another $7 million in temporary borrowing. The Capital Regional District began ramping up to cover treatment costs in 2013, implementing a $5-million per year levy on commercial and residential users in the seven communities. That regional levy rose by $5 million a year, but was held at $15 million a year for 2016 with the project paused. The CRD’s plan is for the public contribution to grow by $5 million to $20 million a year in 2017, with the levy reaching a peak of $35 million a year by 2020 and continue at that rate. CRD staff estimate that $7 million to $8 million of the public contribution goes toward annual operating costs for the current system, with the other $10 million or so going towards consultants and engineers, as well as the public consultation process. Estimates for the eventual sewage treatment costs in 2020 range from a low of a $352 average annual charge for Saanich residents to a high of $741 a year for those living in Colwood, with the funding apportioned based on population. The estimates project the $800average annual household cost as $439 for Esquimalt, $570 for Oak Bay, $495 for Victoria, $415 for View Royal and $400 for Langford. Colwood is hoping to see a more equitable system for its taxpayers, given that 70 per cent of the community’s homes are connected to septic. A complete breakdown of the more than $65 million spent on the project since 2006 was not provided by CRD staff, but the figure includes $27.79 million in land purchases. A category listed as “other Seaterra program expenses” totalled $29 million, with no further explanation of where the costs were directed. Black Press is in the process of securing that information through a Freedom of Information request. The project expenditures also include $1.9 million in legal fees, $260,000 in interim financing costs, $1 million for contract terminations – including $500,000 for former Seaterra program director Albert Sweetnam – and another $1 million for the Eastside and Westside select committee activities. The cost of the twoplant option for Clover and McLoughlin/Macaulay points is currently estimated at $1.05 billion.

Two-Plant option at McLoughlin/Clover Point per household ESTIMATED ANNUAL (2030) COSTS Per household for McLoughlin/Clover Point

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the lowest possible cost.” Some directors believe the committee rejected a lowercost option when they ruled out revisiting a lone plant at McLoughlin Point. Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen said that decision added $250 million to the project’s cost. “This is a political compromise. If we left it to the economists and engineers, we would be looking at a single plant. There’s one plant to treat the sewage and another plant to treat the political sensibilities, and that’s not good public policy,” he said. Other directors said measuring the current options against a lone McLoughlin plant is comparing apples to oranges, pointing to the dramatic decline in the Canadian dollar. Victoria Coun. Ben Isitt was critical of the arbitrary nature of the decision based on “very flimsy financial information,” suggesting the committee was “growing the project scope to create windfall profits for the construction sector.” While the cost to local taxpayers is far from settled, the commitments from senior levels of government have been established: $248 million from

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the B.C. government and another $253 million expected from Ottawa. Those funds represent about two-thirds of the cost of the original proposal for a plant at McLoughlin Point, but only account for about half of the current estimated costs. While there may be other federal or provincial funds the project could tap into, Atwell said, he doesn’t expect the previously announced grants to be increased. “They don’t want to update it, they don’t want to provide any more,” he said. “If they did, there would be no incentive to bring in any project at budget.” It’s clear from the discussion around the table that taxpayers have made their concerns clear to their political representatives. Saanich Coun. Judy Brownoff said she has received numerous comments and emails from her constituents, most of them focused on the financial implications. “At the end of the day, this is about the cost to our taxpayers,” she said. “When you have a senior call you and she’s crying because she’s worried about the cost of this facility and she may lose her home – cost is the No. 1 issue to me.”

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Secondary vs. tertiary treatment

Dave Gardner, senior operator with the CRD’s Integrated Water Systems, looks over the water that has just been through the screening process inside the Clover Point Pumping Station. Don Denton/Black Press

Scientists question need for expenditure CRD monitoring shows outfall areas not in compliance with federal regulations Pamela Roth Black Press

Jack Littlepage can’t help but feel appalled whenever he thinks about the Capital Regional District spending hundreds of millions to construct a sewage treatment system. Working with other area scientists, the former University of Victoria oceanography professor has spent years researching the environmental impact of dumping untreated sewage into the ocean and whether treatment is necessary here. The answer is always no. But the federal government plans to spend billions over the next several years in support of national standards meant to eliminate raw sewage from being pumped into Canadian waterways. Those rules mandate secondary wastewater treatment in coastal cities like Victoria, but Littlepage said the regulations are mainly good for freshwater and don’t allow any variances on the discharge. “We are forced to obey freshwater regulations that have nothing to do with our problems here. They need to be interpreted in light of the environment into which they are being discharged,” he said. He noted the CRD could fight the

regulations, since the effects of wastewater discharge aren’t the same everywhere. “It’s beyond belief that someone hasn’t said, ‘OK government, this is wrong, it’s wasting your money, our money and accomplishing nothing.’ We are listed as a critical discharge into the ocean and yet there is no data to support this and there has never been an environmental impact on the comparison of on-land treatment discharge.” Scientists have long debated whether Greater Victoria needs to change its way of streaming sewage into the ocean, writing numerous reports touching on sediments in the vicinity of the outfalls, chemicals and pharmaceuticals found in the effluent, impacts on marine life and risks to public health. According to the reports, the outfalls pose no public health hazard since effluent only comes to the surface once or twice a year. As for the marine environment, the effluent has some measurable impact on the invertebrates living in sediments around the outfalls, but Littlepage noted the impacts aren’t necessarily negative – the environment is rich and thriving due to nutrients in the effluent. Marine scientists conclude

Regulations make secondary treatment mandatory n In July 2012, the federal government revealed the Canada-wide Strategy for the Management of Municipal Wastewater Effluent – a long list of regulations intended to “protect human health and the receiving environment” by reducing the 150 billion litres of sewage dumped into Canadian waterways each year. n The regulations apply to any wastewater system designed to collect an average volume of 100 cubic metres or more of influent (water flowing into a plant for treatment) per day, and requires all Canadian municipalities (except those in the north) to move towards at least secondary treatment. n At an estimated cost of $6 billion, the strategy is being implemented across the country, starting with high-risk locations by 2020, then medium-risk by 2030 and low-risk by 2040. Victoria has been deemed high risk. n 2,650 wastewater systems in Canada are subject to the regulations and an estimated 75 per cent of the existing systems are already at the secondary level of treatment. Those that don’t come into compliance by the targeted date could face enforcement.

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Scientists Jack Littlepage, left, and Chris Garrett shared their views on the Victoria sewage treatment issues. that conditions off the present outfalls are similar to those off the outfalls from secondary treatment plants in other municipalities. A treatment plant, however, would be effective in removing or metabolizing a variety of potentially toxic chemicals (from household products and pharmaceuticals) in the effluent that would be concentrated in sludge. Scientists have found no indication that chemicals discharged in the past have caused harm to the marine environment, but agree a number of issues still require further investigation. Critics cite a litany of environmental concerns, from oxygen depletion and toxic contaminants in the liquid waste being absorbed by the marine food chain, to fecal coliforms near outfalls posing a hazard to humans. Glenn Harris, a senior scientist with the CRD, is tasked with compliance monitoring. He’s heard arguments from scientists about the lack of necessity for treatment, but noted the region is out of compliance with federal and provincial regulations – which were put in place for a reason. According to Harris, the volume of effluent at each of the two outfalls is just over 40,000 cubic metres per day and Victoria exceeds the regulations

on a number of things, such as effluent toxicity and bacteria. Adding a secondary treatment system will not only bring Victoria in line with government regulations, it will reduce the concerning contaminants. “We’ve had that argument with the feds. They said ‘here is our benchmark, here’s our regulations.’ They’ve been tasked with defining what protecting the human health and environment is and our monitoring shows we are not in compliance with that,” Harris said. “You can see the discharge of contaminants into the ocean. We can see that in the food chain. Killer whales are highly contaminated … and we know the contaminants are a significant stress and risk to those species.” Chris Garrett, a former professor of ocean physics at the University of Victoria, is amazed there hasn’t been a detailed analysis of the real or potential problems. Instead of constructing an expensive plant, he said, the money should be spent on looking at pollutants and how to get rid of them. “If you said to a marine scientist, one of our primary goals is to protect the marine environment and we can spend several hundred million, this (sewage treatment plant) would not be high on our shopping list,” he said.

One consideration being discussed by the core area liquid waste management committee has been whether to treat the region’s wastewater to a secondary or tertiary level. The option identified by the committee will see secondary or tertiary treatment plants constructed at Clover and McLoughlin points. Currently, the area’s sewage receives only preliminary treatment. Screens filter out particles larger than 6mm such as rocks, rags and plastics, which are collected and sent to landfill. Primary treatment uses gravity to allow solids to settle, with grease, oil and fat skimmed off. Screening traps solid objects, and sedimentation by gravity removes suspended solids. Secondary treatment removes dissolved organic matter that escapes primary treatment and uses bacteria to convert it into bacterial cells. The wastewater is then filtered by separating the treated liquid from the cells. Secondary treatment, the federal standard for a marine discharge, removes about 85 per cent of the suspended solids and biochemical oxygen demand. Tertiary treatment improves the quality of the effluent using methods such as membrane filtration, ultraviolet disinfection and advanced oxidation. It can remove more than 99 per cent of impurities from wastewater, producing an effluent with almost drinking-water quality. Tertiary treatment would further reduce the contaminants in the liquid effluent destined for the ocean. While each level of treatment results in a cleaner effluent, tertiary is more expensive. One estimate suggests that treating wastewater to a tertiary level would cost about $100 million more than secondary – an additional $84/year cost on average for households.

In Wednesday’s report: In the fourth instalment of our five-part series on sewage treatment we turn our attention to the West Shore, as well as plans to deal with biosolids. Read your community paper March 30 to find out more.

Share your thoughts Get the dialogue going. Send your opinions on this series to don.descoteau@blackpress.ca, or call 250-478-9552 ext 224. You can also post comments to the Facebook or Twitter pages of your Black Press community newspaper. Please include your name and a telephone number for verification.

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Fassbender “delighted” with infrastructure spending in budget Federal budget forecasts more than $100 billion in deficits for next five years Tom Fletcher Black Press

Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau has handed down his first budget with a massive deficit of $29.4 billion –— three times what had been promised during the election campaign — as the new Liberal government embarks on a stimulus program. The budget forecasts more than $100 billion in deficits for the next five years, contrary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s election promise to balance the budget in four years. Morneau billed the budget as a plan to “revitalize the Canadian economy” and deliver a tax break to nine million taxpayers, and a more generous, tax-free child benefit. Conservative leader Rona Ambrose said the finance

ministry reported on budget day that the Liberals inherited a $4 billion surplus. “There was still a surplus in January, and they’ve blown through that in the first 100 days,” Ambrose said. “What we’re seeing now is reckless spending without a job creation plan, and no actual plan in the budget to return to a balance.” NDP leader Thomas Mulcair took aim at Morneau’s move to target additional Employment Insurance coverage to areas of the country hit hard by the slump in oil and commodity prices. “Right now there are 850,000 people who have lost their jobs who are not even eligible for EI,” Mulcair said. “The budget only takes care of 50,000 of them.” B.C. Communities Minister Peter Fassbender said he is “delighted” at the infrastructure spending. With his own government touting its four straight balanced budgets, Fassbender declined to criticize the Trudeau government’s borrow-andspend strategy. Metro Vancouver

mayors hoping for big infrastructure grants for rapid transit expansion may be disappointed that much of the future stimulus money will be back-end loaded in a second phase of grants after the next federal election. A $370-million initial investment for Metro Vancouver transit is included and will assist TransLink in improving bus service and SkyTrain across the region. The budget also indicates Ottawa can contribute up to 50 per cent of future capital funding, instead of the onethird from each senior government that was the practice in the past. Big ticket items in the budget include the reduction of middle class tax rates — from 22 to 20.5 per cent for the $45,000 to $90,000 income bracket. Only part of that is offset by an increase in the tax rate for income over $200,000 from 29 to 33 per cent. The budget also includes $8.4 billion for aboriginal communities. – with files from Jeff Nagel editor@vicnews.com

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While there haven’t been any incidents involving trolleys this year, Reichert said Victorians are becoming more aware of companies that use animals for entertainment. “The point is to send a strong message to city council that people in Victoria do support a ban and that it’s time for us to get the horses off the street,” Reichert said. “People are just more aware about animals issues and the fact that animals shouldn’t be used for entertainment anymore. When people see the horse carriages passing, they see those same ethical concerns.” The group is calling for a phasing out of the horse carriage industry, to give the carriage operators time to transition the horses out of Victoria, leading to a natural ban effective Dec. 31, 2017. Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps said she does not

support the ban. “Every year for as long as the horse-drawn carriages have been around, someone starts a petition to get rid of them and every year the horse-drawn carriage people say we treat our horses humanely and it just goes away,” Helps said. “I’m convinced the companies do a good job.” She added she would like to see traffic slowed down to the speed of horses. Owners from Victoria Carriage Tours declined to comment and no one from Tally-Ho Carriage Tours could be reached before the Victoria News went to print. kendra.wong@vicnews.com

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Track and Field Coach: Victoria Special Olympics seeks a volunteer head coach with sport-specific experience for their track and field program. The role includes lesson planning and leading a team of assistant coaches. The program runs Monday nights from March to June, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., at the Oak Bay Track. If interested, please contact Margot Tubman at specialo.mtubman@gmail.com. Fairfield Gonzales Community Association seeks a website and social media guru for their Repair Café. This neighbourhood initiative promotes repair as an alternative to tossing things out. Help organizers set up social media accounts, create the website and be a key player in creating wellattended repair events. Please email sgraimes@shaw.ca or call 250-382-4604. Tutors: Literacy Victoria (LV) helps adult learners increase their reading, writing, math and computer literacy. LV is looking for volunteers who want to support learners oneto-one and help them achieve their literacy goals. Teaching is not your background? Not to worry, as LV offers training so you can experience success in your volunteer work with them. Call 250-382-6315.

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down treatment,” said Laskin. This was all happening at a time when the technology for gene sequencing had advanced to a point where the concept was becoming viable. Based on the initial success of that approach, and continued advances in both performing gene sequencing and understanding its results, the POG program was launched in 2014. Since then, the program has admitted 485 patients. And there have been some successes. Take Trish for example. Her case study is recounted by the B.C. Cancer Foundation on their website and tells the story of a vibrant mother of a 27-year-old son whose aggressive colorectal cancer had resisted chemotherapy, several surgeries and radiation therapy. Facing a terminal diagnosis, she was enrolled in the study where genetic sequencing of the cancer identified a protein up-regulation that appeared to be driving her particular disease. A drug, generally prescribed to control blood pressure, was administered and within weeks the cancer had abated. According to Laskin, there have been other similar success stories. “These are still pretty much ‘one-off’ cases, but they all serve to open new areas of research and treatment,” said Laskin. As to why this study is unique to B.C., Laskin acknowledges

that other cancer centres around the world are now trying to get up to speed on the approach. But it’s an approach that isn’t easily emulated. “We’re lucky to have the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre right here in Vancouver,” said Laskin. “It’s one of the top three facilities of it’s kind in the world.” The scientists involved in the project are called ‘bio-informationalists’ and they specialize in interpreting the gene sequencing information that is at the heart of the project. Under the leadership of Marra, these skilled individuals make sense of the data generated by the sequencing project. Laskin explained the process is a combination of biology and mathematics. She said the amount of data is “mind-boggling.” “The real challenge is to have the scientists who understand these masses of data and can tease out the relevant information to allow us to translate that into treatment programs.” But the program is not without its challenges. Funding is always difficult. The POG program has been funded almost entirely through the B.C. Cancer Foundation, which relies significantly on public and corporate donations. That funding has been augmented by grants. Another problem is access to drugs that would help patients but are not available due to regulatory restrictions. Drugs are licensed for use for specific ailments and the ‘off-label’ use of those drugs for other purposes is often restricted. But Laskin is optimistic. “We just have to collect the data and recognize that we’re at the beginning of a new era of oncology. We’re on a steep learning curve in which we’re really having to educate the establishment, both here in B.C. and around the world,” she said. editor@vicnews.com

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If you think that there are more construction cranes towering over Victoria’s skyline these days, you’re not mistaken. The city saw a seven per cent increase in construction permit values last year, and a 19 per cent increase on the residential side of the industry. According to the Vancouver Island Construction Association (VICA), the construction boom will likely continue. “The residential increase covers the whole gamut of residential construction, but the cranes you’re seeing are primarily related to the multi-family condo market that has been really hot,” said VICA CEO Greg Baynton.

Baynton said the early numbers for this year are promising, with the Greater Victoria region posting a roughly 30 per cent gain in residential and non-residential construction projects over January and February of last year. At least part of the boom comes as a result of what Daryl Simpson of Bosa Properties called a changing culture at Victoria’s City Hall. He said the various departments of the city have become far more accommodating and efficient when dealing with new development. It’s a sentiment that is echoed by Ken Mariash of Focus Equities. He credits Mayor Lisa Helps with driving that change in corporate culture. “It’s a feather in our cap to hear Ken Mariash

say that he feels that the culture (at city hall) has changed. To hear a large scale developer say that it’s easy to do business in Victoria, it’s a real testimony,” said Helps. Baynton said other municipalities across B.C. are working to follow Victoria’s lead. “For developers, time spent in approvals, permits and hearings amounts to increased money and risk,” he said. “It takes political leadership to remove barriers and help bring projects to market.” The construction boom has a substantial impact on the region in terms of employment. VICA estimates between 30,000 and 35,000 people are employed in construction on Vancouver Island. Although statistics for

Victoria are not kept on a separate basis, figures from the organization’s annual report show more than half of all Island building permits were issued within the Capital Region District. Those figures translate into the construction industry being directly responsible for more than 15,000 jobs in Victoria. Bayton said those employment numbers reflect an increase of more than 15 per cent, over 2014 — a number that’s good news for the city. Moreover, VICA predicts the construction boom will continue. Their analysis indicates the infrastructure deficit created over many years of very slow activity will continue for at least the next three years. And there may be even more good news on the

horizon. None of the current outlooks for the industry have taken into account the federal government’s infrastructure investment strategy. That initiative, details of which are due to be announced later this month, involves an infusion of $9.5 billion per year, doubling the current federal infrastructure investment to nearly $125 billion over the next 10 years. That funding will help to fuel projects for roads, water treatment, sewage, roads and public facilities. “All of this combines to provide a very positive outlook for the industry in Victoria,” said Baynton, adding it might be a good time to get used to the sight of cranes. editor@vicnews.com

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CARPENTRY BENOIT CONSTRUCTION. Renoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s & Additions. Windows, Doors, Decks. 250-479-0748.

CLEANING SERVICES SPIK Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Span - Cheerful. Excellent rates; senior discount. Esquimalt/Vic. (778)432-3588.

DRYWALL PATCHES, Drywall, plastering, skimming, textures, coves, fireplaces, Bob 250-516-5178.

ELECTRICAL 250-361-6193 Quality Electric Renoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, res & comm. No job too small. Lic# 22779. KENDRAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ELECTRICAL Company. Sm jobs welcome. Lic #86952. 250-415-7991.

FENCING ALL TYPES of fencing, repairs. Reliable, on-time. Free estimates. Call 250-888-8637.

GARDENING 20% OFF! Mowing, aerate, pruning, hedge/shrub trim, yard cleanup. (250)479-6495. (250)208-8535 WOODCHUCK Yard & garden overgrown? Aerating & pwr raking. Lawn cuts starting $30. Comm/Res.

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HAULING AND SALVAGE

BIG BEAR Handyman. Decks, Painting, Repairs. Free estimate. Barry 250-896-6071. CLEANUP SPECIALS! Full yard maintenance. Home construction/renoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s etc. Call Chad 250-507-9933 for more info.

(250) 858-0588 - Lawn & garden maint. - Landscaping - Fences & Decks - Hedge & Tree Services - Pressure Washing Free estimates * WCB www.mowtime.ca DPM SERVICES- lawn & garden, seasonal pruning, clean ups, landscape, power wash, etc. 20yrs exp. (250)883-8141.

GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

GREAT TIME for pruning. Fruit, ornamental & native trees. Call Maxse for results. Senior disc. 250-634-0347.

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Lawn and Garden Maintenance

250-380-7778 GRAND Xterior Cleaning. Windows, Repairs, Gutters, Roof de-moss, PW.

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Call Craig or Mike 250-216-5865

$20 & Up Garbage & Garden waste removal. Senior Disc. Free estimates. 250-812-2279. CLEAN-UP SPECIAL. You load bins, size 12 yard $100 plus dump fee or we do it all. Call 250-361-6164. JUNK BOX- Junk Removal Company. Local guys. Low rates. Call (250)658-3944. PARRYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HAULING We haul it all - FREE estimates. Call Wes 250-812-7774. SAVE-A-LOT HAULING Furniture, appliance, garden waste, we take it all! Always lowest rate, senior discount. Brad 250-217-9578.

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ALFRED, ALFRED Quality Painting. Wholesale, Discounts! 50 years experience. 250-382-3694.

Carpentry, drywall, plumbing, tiling, electric. Kitchen & bath. 20 yrs exp. Fully insured. Alain 250-744-8453. www.justrenoz.com

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Done Right Moving $85/hr. A+ BBB. Senior Disc. No travel time before/after local moves. Penny 250-418-1747

PAINTING

HOUSE & Yard repairs. no job too small. OAP Discounts, free est. Andy, 250-886-3383.

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A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wall coverings. Over 25yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220. CLASSIC IMAGE Paint and renoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Get the wow now! Call (250)885-0494 HIGH QUALITY and FAST. Professional Painting. $20./hr. Free est. Glenn 778-967-3607.

PRESSURE WASHING DRIVEWAYS, WALKWAYS, Decks, etc. Reasonable rates. 250-744-8588, Norm.

STUCCO/SIDING PATCHES, ADDITIONS, restucco, renos, chimney, waterproofing. Bob, 250-516-5178.

UPHOLSTERY UPHOLSTERER work. Your fabric 250-480-7937.

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MASONRY & BRICKWORK CBS MASONRY BBB. WCB. Chimneys, fireplaces,flagstone rock, concrete, natural & veneered stone. Replace, rebuild, restore, renew! Free competitive est. www.cbsmasonry.com; Call (250)5899942, (250)294-9942.

MOVING & STORAGE (250)858-6747. WRIGHT Bros Moving & Hauling. Free Est $75=(2men&3tontruck)Sr Disc.

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High quality, Organized. Interior/Exterior Residential/Commercial Jeff, 250-889-7715 or 250-472-6660 Member BBB

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