Rebel Yell

In continuation to my “Stop asking questions, you’re confusing me” blog, it seems as of late the city of Colwood is withdrawing from the massive sewage treatment project discussed earlier. It appears the city may be in talks to develop its own plant, as the mayor believes it would cost taxpayers less to have private developers build communities similar to Victoria’s own Dockside Green, which treats its own sewage waste rather than pay a share of the regional system. There is even talks that Colwood may even leave CRD as a whole, and a municipality leaving an organization like the CRD is not a common occurrence and brings up many questions if a municipality should have the right to or not.

Now do you blame Colwood for their actions? Colwood appears to trying to branch on its own and form its own entity and exist outside of their pre-existing community with the CRD. The mayor of Colwood is serious about this detachment and feels the costs associated with being part of the CRD are not adequate with the benefits. Whether this is the right action or not is to be determined. If I were the CRD, I would potentially be worried that other municipalities may follow suit and leave the CRD and branch out making their own individualities. Nothing is concrete yet, so we will have to see how this develops

Exert from: Times Colonist: Fri Feb.14/09, article “Colwood could pull out of CRD sewage project”