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Years after it started operating, odour complaints about the $775-million McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant continue to come in. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

This $775M wastewater plant in B.C. is still seeing odour complaints

Neighbouring residents doubt the sewage treatment site’s smells will ever go away

Jul 18, 2023
by Jake Romphf
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The McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in Esquimalt, B.C., is seen on Friday, January 8, 2021. The Greater Victoria area no longer uses surrounding ocean waters to flush away raw effluent now that a $775 million sewage plant has started treating the equivalent of 43 Olympic-sized pools of waste daily. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

For its neighbours, Greater Victoria’s wastewater plant woes flow through the nose

Those living nearby say CRD hasn’t kept its promise of an odour-free McLoughlin treatment facility

Nov 10, 2022
by Jake Romphf
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