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Sewage spill into nearby Jock River
occurred quickly after
pipeline rupture.
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After the forcemain's
catastrophic rupture, at approximately 2:00 PM, October
26, 2004, the pumping was continued until the location of
the sewage forcemain breech was found.
The Richmond Village is
requesting that the city inform residents of the duration
of the pumping, that took place, after the SCADA alarm
detected that a massive break had occurred.
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At a
Trail Road Leachate public meeting, on October
26th ---just 6 hours after this rupture had
occurred --- a city engineer (in an apparent
attempt to instill public confidence in forcemains),
publicly stated that he was not aware of any
forcemain breaks having occurred, that were not excavation
equipment-caused.
The
fact is, he was aware that ALL SIX of the Richmond forcemain
ruptures have been spontaneous breaks, including
the one that day.
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Richmond residents: Expect to see
more of this... thanks to your "environmentalist" ward councillor!
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Path of Least
Resistance...
Straight to the River
Photo,
taken at the river-edge, (facing north) shows excavation
equipment at the site of the forcemain rupture, and the
path through the tall grass that the sewage traveled,
(parallel to Eagleson Road), to flow into the Jock River.
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Even more worrisome than this type of catastrophic
failure, is the fact that this (and all other)
sewage forcemains being managed by the city likely
have numerous, slow, progressive leaks that are undetectable by
the SCADA alarm system, (until final massive ruptures
occur).
Therefore, a pressurized
sewage forcemain would not mix safely with the
aquifer of the Village of Richmond, largely
dependant on shallow wells for its drinking water---and
should be avoided at any cost.
The offence is even
greater, when the safest solution (i.e: on-site
treatment option) is also the most cost-effective.
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Richmond
residents would like to know if MOE was informed in time,
on the day of the pipe rupture, to do their sampling when
the sewage was actually flowing into the river.
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It would
be much safer for the public, if the MOE was
sufficiently vigilant against the municipal abuses of
public process, (such as in Richmond's case), that
create real threats to private and
public water
supply (and will actually lead to more Walkertons) ---than all the punitive 'window-dressing' of
the over-kill Water Regulations: 170-03, against
private and public systems with decades of safe
history.
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(Below)
- Ministry of Environment (MOE) official doing after-
the-fact sampling ---one day after the forcemain rupture. |
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Photos (taken
on Oct. 27th), |
are courtesy of the Friends of
the Jock River |
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