Among the items dealt with by the Westside Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recovery Select Committee at its Tuesday meeting was a letter from Langford Mayor Stew Young that emphasized his concern over the push to find a new site.

Young wrote, B次元官网网址淏次元官网网址� more time is required to ensure a proper technical analysis in undertaken of all the sites being considered for the treatment plant(s) and to receive the appropriate public input related to the project.B次元官网网址�

In a follow up interview, the mayor reiterated his thoughts on the issue.

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Young suggested that the committee go to the projectB次元官网网址檚 government funders and admit having made mistakes in the past. He wants the province and federal governments to recognize the region is undertaking a new process to achieving the mandated sewage treatment and that it will take a little more time to do it right.

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Young worries that if the committees rush the current process, there could be a repeat of the McLoughlin Point rejection, which essentially ground the project to a halt.

He adds thereB次元官网网址檚 no option for failure this time around.

He sees the recent rejection of a potential site on Watkiss Way by Saanich council, before it received a technical analysis, as an example of how individual municipalities can interfere with the process.

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He fears that a B次元官网网址渘ot in my backyard attitude,B次元官网网址� combined with political interference, will lead to another rejection.

B次元官网网址淲ho says you pick a site and the public is going to support it?

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katie@goldstreamgazette.com