Amendment Details

The CRD amendment to the Liquid Waste Management Program (LWMP) puts forth a provisional schedule for treatment implementation. The provisional plan calls for four treatment facilities and one sludge treatment facility to be located beside an existing landfill. Of the four potential sites named in the provisional schedule, two are locations owned by the Government of Canada, one is owned by the City of Victoria, and one has a mixture of public and private ownership. The City has pledged to provide Secondary treatment or better for wastewater flow up to two times the average dry weather flow, and primary treatment for flow that exceeds two times the daily average dry weather flow. Two of the proposed treatment facilities will be water reclamation plants that will be able to supply high quality reclaimed water for use in toilets or irrigation. The estimated cost of the four wastewater treatment facilities and one sludge treatment facility is $1.0 billion, which is expected to be inflated to $1.2 billion by the mid point of facility construction. Of note is that the Ministry of Environment, which called for this mandatory amendment of the CRD’s LWMP, has yet to approve the amendment.