The Request for Proposals for the Munster Wastewater Treatment Proposals, specifically requested bids for "new and innovative treatment technologies", capable of meeting very stringent discharge parameters. (Pipeline did not qualify)

The subject technology has been piloted extensively under the direction of the New York Environmental Protection Agency, and has demonstrated the ability to better the MOE requirements for phosphorous discharge by a margin of over 200% (i.e.: 0.013 mg./L  vs. the required 0.03 mg./L). See the 39-page,1997, Stamford, NY Study.

While 0.03 mg/L Phosphorus had not previously been asked for, except in the case of a Manotick project which was under development, it has turned out to be quite achievable, (as shown in the Stamford Study, above). Letters on file prove the City accepted these pilot results in 1998. The MOE granted a Certificate of Approval in 1998 for an identical plant, and "Policy-2 Receiver" discharge criteria, in Manotick.

It hardly seems ethical, for the City to go through the motions of requesting bids for "new and innovative technology," then attempt to use precisely the same criterion (of its NEWNESS) to disqualify it, in order to "fix" a pipeline preference (which had already been pre-selected, and solicited).

Such underhanded and illicit "short-circuiting" of due process and the public interest, has proved costly to the public in terms of lost time and wasted tax dollars.