deepdiverbc
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I've got an idea. How about they flush red dye into the outflow pipe for a week and see where it ends up. It's probably not very scientific but I bet construction on a treatment plant would begin soon after.
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Here is a quote from "Whidbey Island septic system law takes hold" from August 20, 2008 on WhidbeyNewsTimes.com:
The city uses both its own treatment plant at Windjammer Park and the Navy’s lagoon system at Crescent Harbor to treat its wastewater. City workers do a great job keeping the system operating at peak efficiency, but the fact is that the finished product that pours into Puget Sound is not up to modern standards. As a demonstration to the city council last year showed, Oak Harbor is putting murky, rather putrid-looking treated water into Puget Sound, while a modern sewer plant produces a clear product that, as sewer plant operators like to boast, “is clean enough to drink.”
You might think about working on bringing awareness to the sewage problems at home before worrying about ours.
According to the book "The Humanure Handbook A guide to composting human manure" by Joseph Jenkins:
'The average person can now expect to find at least 250 chemical contaminants in his or her body fat'
On a regular basis I see my neighbors spreading weed killers in their backyards or washing their cars in their drives. During a rainy day all those chemicals run straight into the bay because storm water is not treated in the plant. Should I approach them and preach them about the pollution that they are creating?
I am undecided on this issue, but I am curious about these heavy metals you refer to. Can you cite a source and confirmation that there are in fact heavy metals being ejected into the ocean by the city of Victoria?
Of course not. It is far more appropriate to be an "activist" on ScubaBoard using a fake name and a picture of a lingcod. Ahh...the bravery.
My personal opinion is that the City of Victoria should not be dumping untreated sewage into the Pacific Ocean. I drive hybrid car, donate money to many environmental groups, recyle, and try not to be wasteful. It's of course not nearly enough, but I try. Frankly I couldn't care less if somebody labels me an environmentalist or anything else. It's of absolutely no consequence to me.
Ogden Point is without a doubt the most popular dive site in Victoria, or on Vancouver Island for that matter. It also is a major factor in the success of the Ogden Point Dive Center. If there is a better way of promoting environmental awareness of our world's oceans than training divers, I can't think of it. Your unwarranted, and unsubstantiated, comments about the quality of the water at this popular dive site serves no positive purpose. Virtually everybody in Victoria, and on Vancouver Island, are aware that the City is dumping raw sewage into the ocean. If there is to be change it will obviously come form the citizens and not foreign visitors. So what were you hoping to accomplish by posting these comments, not only once, but multiple times? It seems that the only possible result you were hoping to attain was to persuade foreign visitors not to dive at this site (based on faulty information and logic). This would be a shame.
I did not mean to point the finger to anybody with my post. The pollution of the oceans caused by dumping untreated sewage, chemicals, heavy metals and plastic is a global problem.
But I believe that this dive site could be even better if raw sewage wasn't dumped nearby in the first place.