Comments on: 2008 a wild ride so far https://matttodd.ca/?p=266 sharing ideas on community and democracy Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:37:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Johan Lennart Wilhelm Sandstrom https://matttodd.ca/?p=266&cpage=1#comment-365 Johan Lennart Wilhelm Sandstrom Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:37:20 +0000 http://matttodd.ca/wordpress/?p=172#comment-365 “Dirty Water Makes for Dirty Laundry” Is our water [salt and the fresh] challenged and in jeopardy. Pollution and the lack of in our environs play an essential role in our ‘destination for tourists locationWhite Rock, BC’ Let me make these remarks: [from my webplace and Internet 'magazine' <a href="http://www.whiterockreporter.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.whiterockreporter.com</a> Received and written very sharply and sensibly by Matt Todd, Councillor, 5th April 2008. and in my response on my [above web site...for the rest of the story] Matt Todd: “Why is it that some people truly believe that it is government’s job to stop them from doing the things they know they shouldn’t do? Like say, dump things into the storm sewer, which is the ocean by proxy. How much regulation is required, how much bureaucracy necessary to stop people from doing stupid things? I don’t think the outfalls are unacceptable. What’s unacceptable to me is that the water coming out of them is occasionally not as clean as it could or should be. There are other solutions besides closing the outfalls… starting with people not dumping waste into the storm water system”. -– Matt Todd Councillor, City of White Rock MattTodd.ca On 4-Apr-08, at 4:47 PM, Johan Sandstrom wrote: My Google Alert whisked this over to my email: Source: Peace Arch News via Google:/ Cheers/Johan “No source yet for water woe By Tracy Holmes - Peace Arch News - April 03, 2008 “The flow of an unidentified substance into Semiahmoo Bay Monday highlights a “ridiculous” flaw in White Rock’s effort to protect the environment. Coun. James Coleridge, who chairs the city’s environment committee, said his group is calling on city council to make closing off outfalls into the bay a priority. The recommendation is already in the committee’s environmental draft plan that was presented to council last fall. “It’s ridiculous the city has outfalls into its beach… unacceptable,” Coleridge said. “At some point, we have to prevent any damage to the quality of the water.” City crews scrambled Monday morning to locate the source of a reddish-brown discharge that was spewing onto west beach from the Anderson outfall. As of Peace Arch News deadlines Thursday, those efforts were unsuccessful, and officials were still waiting on test results to determine just what the discharge was. Director of operations David Pollock said crews continue to monitor the outfall, and investigation into the source is ongoing. Pollock confirmed the issue of eliminating outfalls is “being discussed,” but noted stopping the flow into the bay would present “a substantial challenge.” “The water would have to go somewhere else and I’m not quite sure what that would entail at this juncture,” he said. Pollock noted White Rock’s system is “pretty much the same as every other storm water system in Metro Vancouver,” whereby the water is discharged into a body of receiving water. He said one option for change would be to divert the storm water into the sanitary system. However, “the existing system does not have the capacity.” End of quote from the PAN./././.js “ “Dirty Water Makes for Dirty Laundry” Is our water [salt and the fresh] challenged and in jeopardy.
Pollution and the lack of in our environs play an essential role in our ‘destination for tourists locationWhite Rock, BC’

Let me make these remarks: [from my webplace and Internet 'magazine' http://www.whiterockreporter.com

Received and written very sharply and sensibly by Matt Todd, Councillor, 5th April 2008. and in my response on my [above web site...for the rest of the story]
Matt Todd:
“Why is it that some people truly believe that it is government’s job to stop them from doing the things they know they shouldn’t do? Like say, dump things into the storm sewer, which is the ocean by proxy. How much regulation is required, how much bureaucracy necessary to stop people from doing stupid things? I don’t think the outfalls are unacceptable. What’s unacceptable to me is that the water coming out of them is occasionally not as clean as it could or should be. There are other solutions besides closing the outfalls… starting with people not dumping waste into the storm water system”.
-–
Matt Todd
Councillor, City of White Rock
MattTodd.ca

On 4-Apr-08, at 4:47 PM, Johan Sandstrom wrote:

My Google Alert whisked this over to my email: Source: Peace Arch News via Google:/ Cheers/Johan
“No source yet for water woe
By Tracy Holmes – Peace Arch News – April 03, 2008

“The flow of an unidentified substance into Semiahmoo Bay Monday highlights a “ridiculous” flaw in White Rock’s effort to protect the environment.

Coun. James Coleridge, who chairs the city’s environment committee, said his group is calling on city council to make closing off outfalls into the bay a priority.

The recommendation is already in the committee’s environmental draft plan that was presented to council last fall.

“It’s ridiculous the city has outfalls into its beach… unacceptable,” Coleridge said. “At some point, we have to prevent any damage to the quality of the water.”

City crews scrambled Monday morning to locate the source of a reddish-brown discharge that was spewing onto west beach from the Anderson outfall.

As of Peace Arch News deadlines Thursday, those efforts were unsuccessful, and officials were still waiting on test results to determine just what the discharge was.

Director of operations David Pollock said crews continue to monitor the outfall, and investigation into the source is ongoing.

Pollock confirmed the issue of eliminating outfalls is “being discussed,” but noted stopping the flow into the bay would present “a substantial challenge.”

“The water would have to go somewhere else and I’m not quite sure what that would entail at this juncture,” he said.

Pollock noted White Rock’s system is “pretty much the same as every other storm water system in Metro Vancouver,” whereby the water is discharged into a body of receiving water.

He said one option for change would be to divert the storm water into the sanitary system. However, “the existing system does not have the capacity.”

End of quote from the PAN./././.js “

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