Several independent engineers have professionally stated that the on-site treatment option, overwhelmingly, would have  been the best choice in terms of:

• Route along Bleeks Rd. or Copeland Rd. could have been a gravity pipeline, most of the way. The Franktown route required a pressurized-forcemain the whole way because of the planned siphon crossing under the the Hobbs drain (in the Richmond Fen).
• Such a lengthy forcemain (over 11 Km.) --when the better, gravity pipeline alternative was simpler, safer and more cost-effective-- gave rise to many competent independent engineers asking "WHY?", and predicting problems ahead, (with the 11 Km. forcemain selection), in terms cost, risk and with H₂S control problems that would arise, which did develop as predicted, and which have now plagued Richmond residents since the start-up of the Munster forcemain.
• The detour of the forcemain (south) along the Munster Rd., then (east) along the Franktown Rd. --to ultimately head north along Eagleson Rd. to Kanata-- makes no sense at all. Was there another hook-up planned in the vicinity of these two roads, such that a significant detour in the wrong direction was undertaken?
• The Franktown Rd. route requires the sewage pressure forcemain to transverse the 1.7Km-wide Richmond Fen --one of the largest provincially significant wetlands in Eastern Ontario. An eventual forcemain rupture will contaminate the fen.
• The Franktown Rd. route also requires two crossings of the Jock River, at added cost and ongoing risk to the environment, which could have been avoided by selection of one of the other two routes.
• The Franktown Rd. route brings the pressure sewage line right through the Village of Richmond, where roughly 5,000 residents draw their potable water from private shallow wells. Respect for the public interest and adherence to the Precautionary Principle would have immediately raised a red flag, on this misguided agenda, at all levels of Government, and prevented it from happening.
• The Franktown Rd. route of the pressurized sewage forcemain --through Richmond-- creates the potential for the 'nightmare scenario': of a slow, undetected sewage leak into residents' wells, which is certain to occur over time -- and may lead to illness or deaths due to E-coli contamination of source drinking water. (Recent example of slow leak in an unpopulated area.)