Spray field at Westport, Ontario

                     Viewpoint of the Municipal Council of Westport (February 15, 2002):

"The village of Westport has employed the innovative freeze-crystallization process for sewage effluent treatment for the past five and a half seasons. This technology was employed by the Village because the high level of treatment quality offered, tertiary plus, was necessary because of the environmentally sensitive status of the Upper Rideau Lake at the time. The Upper Rideau Lake was the effluent receiving body of water under the prior sewage treatment system.

   After five and a half years of winter operation, the system has operated according to design specification, has eliminated the requirement for a seasonal effluent discharge into Rideau Lake, and has no surface water or groundwater B-7 impacts on adjacent properties according to recent technical studies. The Municipal Council endorses this technology as an environmentally responsible and cost effective solution for small to mid size systems operating under environmentally sensitive conditions."

Scott Bryce, Clerk/Treasurer.