Editor:
In the District of Sechelt council briefs (Coast Reporter, Nov. 12), Coun. Fred Taylor was quoted in reference to Sechelt's proposed, but fundamentally disastrous, Biosolids Management Plan (BMP) stating it's the "best recommendation we can make."
Taylor claims a lot of "hard work and hours of dedicated reading on the project," and proposes that Sechelt build a third treatment plant. Unfortunately, his solution is one that has no business being located anywhere near humans - a third-world treatment process achieved by installing a massive storage pond of sewage sludge open to the breathable air of a residential area and nearby campground.
Taylor confesses that he cannot come up with a better plan and so Sechelt should therefore accept the proposal Urban Systems has dished out. His feeble attempt to spin a 'Not In My Back Yard' argument does not hold water - the BMP is a bad plan regardless of where it is located. If this is the best he can do, Taylor needs to seriously reconsider his place on council.
Council would do well to stand far away from the Urban Systems recommendation to use technology that will be obsolete before the plant is built. Sechelt needs to invest in wastewater and biosolids treatment technologies that we can all live beside and future generations can be proud of.
What is holding us back?
Gina Stockwell
Sechelt
