The flyer states:
"...a pipeline for Munster would eliminate many of
the negative environmental impacts associated with a local
treatment system, including odour, noise and
loss of agricultural land."
...an example of more misrepresentation!
- The flyer's statement treats all of the different local
treatment systems as one. The reader knows that there are two distinct systems. The RBC-Mechanical Treatment Plant
(MTP) has virtually non-existent odours (because it
operates indoors, and does not use lagoons), compared with the
pipeline and its associated
lagoon(s).
- The RBC-MTP's
5-HP motors operating at a distance of about 1500-feet from the Munster pump
station, should produce a lot less noise and vibration than the existing 10-HP
pumps, operating adjacent to homes on Dogwood Drive. (You know: inverse square
of the distance, and all that stuff.) However,
since it appears that the pipeline the
City's consultants would recommend is 10-inches (250 mm) in diameter, then the adjacent pump motors at the
pump house would have to be 88-HP. (Pipeline proponents
....Enjoy!)
- The RBC-MTP has a
generous home-sized footprint of about 3500 square feet ---THAT'S ALL! It
actually frees up land (currently tied up), for future agricultural,
conservation or recreational use. The pipeline, on the other hand, severely
disrupts (during construction) ---and permanently ties up--- over 7-hectares of
valuable road corridor. That entire route is, thereafter, forever at risk of the
all-too-familiar pattern of forcemain ruptures.