In 1956, Oak Bay residents banned the sale of raw milk. In 1958, Victorians voted 2-1 in favour of amalgamation with Saanich (though Saanich rejected the idea by a similar margin). In 1961, Saanich residents OK’d the sale of beer by the glass. In 1981, Victoria voters gave their blessing to Sunday shopping. Direct democracy isn’t as exciting these days, though an Esquimalt case is currently causing a bit of a kerfuffle. It involves a proposed replacement for the municipality’s cramped, crumbling public safety building. There’s some grumbling over the $42-million cost $7.1 million from the Capital Regional District money Esquimalt got for hosting the McLoughlin Point sewage plant, the balance to be borrowed and some over the approval process.
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Storm rains cause sewage overflow on southern Vancouver Island
Heavy rains in recent days have resulted in a warning to residents in the Capital Regional District to avoid certain shorelines in Oak Bay and Saanich, B.C.
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Mr Floatie and other environmental groups ran a public campaign to try and pressure officials to build a wastewater treatment plant for years. In December, that long-anticipated plant started operating but a few hiccups remain.(Chat Hipolito/The Canadian Press)
An overhaul of the Capital Regional District’s processing system for wastewater entailed the major investment of building the McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant on a 3.5-acre oceanside site in Esquimalt.
There is also a new residual solids treatment facility at the Hartland landfill in Saanich, and 35 kms of piping that carries wastewater between the facilities.
McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant. (Capital Regional District)
This wastewater treatment plant can treat 108 million litres of wastewater per day equivalent to 43 Olympic-sized swimming pools to a tertiary level, which is one of the highest levels of treatment available and exceeds regulatory requirements.
Prior to the construction of the new facilities, the release of 40 billion litres of raw sewage into the strait every month has long been a sticking point in the relations between British Columbia and Washington State, with the untreated waters flushing southwards through the strait and into Pug