Editor:
The sewage treatment plan passed by the 2008 to 2011 Sechelt council did not include open settling pools or old technology. Everything would have been done indoors with modern technology. Any noise and odour would have been contained. It would have been relocated out of the downtown core, which we have been promised would happen for decades.
Most people in the District of Sechelt were happy with this plan that would have cost $16 million; not the $21.5 to $24 million proposed by John Henderson's council on an Ebbtide lot that is small compared to the 2.8 hectare Lot L would provide for much future expansion.
With this council's plan, septage from the old Dusty Road plant will still need to be taken back down to be processed at the Ebbtide plant.
I wish the District of Sechelt would explain this action.
During the present council's election campaign those successful to be elected to council presented themselves as being business smart. Now they tell us we will be paying at least $5 million more than what was proposed by the previous council. What happened to their business smarts since they were elected? Was it so smart to leave so many decisions to the contracted proponent of the treatment facility without any consultation with the taxpayers?
Betty-Anne Pap, Sechelt
