In a recent viewpoint [“Global warming is hitting hard and fast,” February 14], the writer stated that CECs (contaminants of emerging concern ) are “Anything that enters our mouths or drains: viruses, paint thinner, fentanyl, Viagra, caffeine, bacteria, chemotherapy.... It goes in. It goes out, straight back to a marine-receiving environment, unless the sewage plant employs tertiary wastewater treatment. Then, a majority of CECs are effectively filtered.”
Does this mean our new plant does not employ tertiary wastewater treatment, meaning the several outflow pipes replaced with a single outflow pipe - our “new” system under construction - was designed and is built without any improvement in tertiary wastewater treatment, so we need to “upgrade” our as yet not even functional “new” treatment plant?
If this is the case, then how was diverting the outfall from the existing treatment plants to a single outfall, a benefit at public borrowing expense which must be repaid by people not yet born, a wise use of public funds?
Guy Hawkins,
Manson Avenue
