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The Ministry of
Environment, "Certificate of Approval"
was issued,
back in 1998,
on the same, Mechanical Treatment
Technology, for a Manotick Development,
as the advanced treatment process,
considered by many residents to be
"The legitimate... 'Preferred Solution' for Munster".
Since 1998, the City has used every
obstructionist tactic that it could devise,
to delay the environmentally advanced, and MOE-approved, Manotick
WW-treatment
project from proceeding. This appears to have been done,
to prevent the
public from witnessing just how efficiently the treatment plant
could operate ...prior to the City being able to impose its
---pre-selected---
technically inferior pipeline-lagoon "fix" upon Munster
residents.
The way ALL sewage should
be treated:
Far
better to tertiary-treat sewage on-site (as shown below) than to send it
seventy kilometers by pipeline, only to be
poorly processed at ROPEC's
obsolete, centralized monstrosity ...spewing
pollution to all its downstream neighbours!
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This photo of the Manotick
wastewater treatment plant (taken March 15th, 2004), shows how innocuous
this type of treatment really is ---to be able to be placed in such
close proximity to homes ...with no smelly lagoons present.
Compare this with the
problematic forcemain and lagoon system the city has been trying to
force upon Munster, Richmond and area residents, (at five times the
cost), and you can see why there's a quick perception that something
is: "not quite right, here".
When you add in the
fact that the forcemain option would widely spread its environmental
and public health risks throughout the shallow and vulnerable
(private-well) drinking water source of close to 7,000 residents, it
is no longer simply a risky miscalculation ...it's a barefaced
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