Sewage will be pumped from the chosen few to KIP’s wastewater treatment plant north of the excavated area on the left for the storage basin. The basins are to store the treated sewage until it can be dumped at a rate of 1000 cubic metres daily Oct. through May in our little Hart/Washer Creek. YUM!
Here’s a Letter to the Editor I submitted to the Comox Valley Record two weeks ago and they’ve never run it:
Proposed Sewer Extension: Royston and Union Bay!?!!
This past month us folks out here in Royston and Union Bay received a somewhat disturbing notice from the Comox Valley Regional District informing us that a new property tax is going to be added to our annual bill as part of a proposed sewer extension project. They informed us that “Households in phase 1A” of the project can look forward to paying an annual tax of roughly $1,550 for it beginning in 2026 and ending in 2051 after having payed out some $39,000 in total. (Alternatively, they suggested that residents could skip this 25-year term and pay $22,000 up front.) They then noted that households are also to pay a one-time fee of an estimated $2,500 to $8,500.to decommission their septic systems and connect their homes to the sewer line.
And their reason for carrying this sewer project out? Well, they state that “…the district project aims is to stop pollution in select areas of Royston and Union Bay, which are known to have high rates of unregistered, illegal or outdated septic systems and to have environmental risks, such as being near the ocean shore.” Still, for us living in the residential neighbourhood up above the old island highway, it just so happens our septic fields drain out into glacial till gravel and sands and then out into our lawns, gardens and trees where it is all soaked up and their output well dispensed with. So in the end, what the heck is the need for making us have to pay for this major sewer line project?
Well, it just so happens that a massive 789 acre proposed property development, the Union Bay Estates, has been on hold for some 20 years now. According to a C.V.R.D. website, it was to comprise some 2,889 dwelling units consisting of townhouses, carriage houses and secondary suites. (In comparison, Union Bay’s current population is only made up of some 1,200 residents.) Then there’s to be 260 vacation units i.e. hotel rooms and vacation villas. So that all being said, initially the developers were planning to build a state-of-the-art sewage treatment facility with its waste water dispersed out onto their golf course property. But apparently they never got permission to proceed with this undertaking so now we can be assured that they are most delighted to hear that the C.V.R.D. is planning instead to lay a sewage line all the way out by them. In essence then, it would appear that us residents who currently are all settled in with our septic systems working well here in Royston, are going to be footing a good part of the tab for its construction. In the end, this will free up Union Bay Estates developers to finally to forge ahead with their mega-project what with us locals rescuing them by underwriting so much of the sewer line’s construction.
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Here’s a Letter to the Editor I submitted to the Comox Valley Record two weeks ago and they’ve never run it:
Proposed Sewer Extension: Royston and Union Bay!?!!
This past month us folks out here in Royston and Union Bay received a somewhat disturbing notice from the Comox Valley Regional District informing us that a new property tax is going to be added to our annual bill as part of a proposed sewer extension project. They informed us that “Households in phase 1A” of the project can look forward to paying an annual tax of roughly $1,550 for it beginning in 2026 and ending in 2051 after having payed out some $39,000 in total. (Alternatively, they suggested that residents could skip this 25-year term and pay $22,000 up front.) They then noted that households are also to pay a one-time fee of an estimated $2,500 to $8,500.to decommission their septic systems and connect their homes to the sewer line.
And their reason for carrying this sewer project out? Well, they state that “…the district project aims is to stop pollution in select areas of Royston and Union Bay, which are known to have high rates of unregistered, illegal or outdated septic systems and to have environmental risks, such as being near the ocean shore.” Still, for us living in the residential neighbourhood up above the old island highway, it just so happens our septic fields drain out into glacial till gravel and sands and then out into our lawns, gardens and trees where it is all soaked up and their output well dispensed with. So in the end, what the heck is the need for making us have to pay for this major sewer line project?
Well, it just so happens that a massive 789 acre proposed property development, the Union Bay Estates, has been on hold for some 20 years now. According to a C.V.R.D. website, it was to comprise some 2,889 dwelling units consisting of townhouses, carriage houses and secondary suites. (In comparison, Union Bay’s current population is only made up of some 1,200 residents.) Then there’s to be 260 vacation units i.e. hotel rooms and vacation villas. So that all being said, initially the developers were planning to build a state-of-the-art sewage treatment facility with its waste water dispersed out onto their golf course property. But apparently they never got permission to proceed with this undertaking so now we can be assured that they are most delighted to hear that the C.V.R.D. is planning instead to lay a sewage line all the way out by them. In essence then, it would appear that us residents who currently are all settled in with our septic systems working well here in Royston, are going to be footing a good part of the tab for its construction. In the end, this will free up Union Bay Estates developers to finally to forge ahead with their mega-project what with us locals rescuing them by underwriting so much of the sewer line’s construction.
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