Why would the flyer's authors claim that the
Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA) would
disallow any discharge to a Policy 2 receiver (the Jock River), when ---in
fact--- there is an
existing Certificate of Approval for an RBC-Wastewater Treatment Plant in Manotick (granted in 1998)
to discharge 0.03 mg/L Phosphorus in the Policy 2 receiver, there. The flyer is
misrepresenting the truth.
The RVCA is well aware that water directed in the direction of the Jock River, is far better than water being transferred out of the watershed. The next issue, of course, is the quality of the water. The RVCA's Jock River Watershed Plan published background Phosphorus levels (in the Jock River) as ranging from 0.05 - 1.10 mg/L. This means that the River's background concentrations of Phosphorus are between 1.6X to 37X higher than that coming from an (RBC)-mechanical treatment plant.
On October 7, 1998, the RVCA issued the following
policy statement:
"It is not the Conservation Authority's role in the
review of the wastewater treatment alternatives to advocate one technology over
any other. ...The end result of this overall exercise should be the
implementation of an alternative or combination of alternatives which address
the problem of wastewater treatment for the already existing community of
Munster Hamlet but which would also result in a
net gain
in the quality of the Jock River watershed environment
while including
all of the required safeguards and mitigation measures to avoid potential
environmental or human harm."
Regarding the pipeline option, the same letter
expressed concerns with regard to any pipeline crossing the Richmond Fen:
"Any impact assessment related to traversing the Bog
must be thorough in that any mitigation measures required for protecting the
integrity of the wetland and its cultural, ecological, and hydrological
functions must be fully understood.
...The Conservation Authority will want to
review the wetlands impact assessment."
It is interesting to note that the (RMOC) City decided that it was not going to do a wetlands impact assessment, after all. Is the City fearful that such a study would find cause to end their "pipe dream"?
"It is error alone which needs the support of government.
Truth can stand by itself."
Thomas Jefferson