Capital region forges on with Haro Woods sewage plan, but keeps eye on UVic
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Updated: October 08, 2009 10:43 AM
The Capital Regional District will go ahead with a detailed environmental assessment on the Haro Woods as it considers building a sewage treatment plant there, but won't close the door on possible sites at the University of Victoria.
CRD directors voted Wednesday to start the environmental review and have staff work with Saanich on possible options to use land the municipality owns – and which has already been partially disturbed – to build a plant.
But they also included a directive to write to Uvic's board of governors asking if they are willing to make sites available on campus.
The CRD has been in disucssions with the university staff about two possible sites, by the playing fields on McKenzie Avenue and in a field off of Cedar Hill Cross Road, but some directors wanted to see if other options are possible.
The CRD must have a specific site selected in its funding proposal to the federal government, due Dec. 31.
More details to come.
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