‘How Soon’ should be only sewer question

Letter by Herb Haklane to the Sooke News Mirror, July 23, 2003

Editor:

Well, here we go again debating the sewer question - the money, the environment, our options ...

The money one is easy. We have at least two years before the sewers can be operational. When your roof is worn out or the 1970s shag carpet is too stained, what do we do? We budget for it! Let's be ants here and not grasshoppers.

Then there is the environmental outfall issue that we are concerned about. The harbour at this point is so polluted that shellfish must be treated before you can eat them. The white foam and sludge on the beaches is contaminated from faulty septic systems.

The outfall will be treated and expelled into open ocean at one part per billion. The real environmental question I have is when did you all last attend a Greenpeace meeting or Sierra Club jamboree? Better yet, when did you last buy the pricey cleaner gasoline for your car?

It is nice to be political or environmentally concerned, but lose the double standard.

Our options are these. Install sewers and move forward just like the day electricity was available and running water was embraced. Or stay in the Dark Ages and when your washer breaks down you can go to the creek because the laundry only exists in the real world.

If we all think hard, our only question should be, "How soon can we install it?"

Herb Haldane

[Methinks that this fallacious Herb has not only gone overboard with dichotomies and erroneous analogies, but it is painfully obvious that Herb also doesn’t have a clue what he is talking about and has no understanding of the true science of the situation. Looks like this uninformed person just got suckered into writing another form letter to the mirror. Maybe he is dazzled by the big bucks……I wonder who is really footing the bill….and who will profit……]